Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Learn by doing. Learn through experiences. And this goes back to Steve Jobs' thing - which is the way you open up your knowledge of the world is by discovering it and learning about it, not through books, but by being there.

We cannot learn men from books.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.