Plutarch Quotes

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

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

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

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

The true man of science - will smell, taste, see, hear better than other men.

You don't really get the full grasp of something until you see it for yourself.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

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

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

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

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.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

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

I believe that we learn by practice.

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.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.