Ben Horowitz Quotes

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 purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

He that travels much knows much.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

Everything is educational.

From every little territory I've been, I've picked something up, things that I could use to better my game, to take with me, and the rest I left behind.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.