Mao Zedong Quotes

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

I think love is something you figure out later on in life, and you have to make a lot of mistakes to figure out what love is, which is why we all have shitty, tumultuous relationships when we're younger, and it's harder to let go.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

I’ve had those relationships, and you have to make those mistakes to find out what we really want.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.