Saint Augustine Quotes

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

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

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

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

I learn from experience.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

We cannot learn men from books.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.