Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Most of the time, I don't want to use anti-climatic, but sometimes you go out there thinking this is going to be the worst thing you've ever gotten yourself into, and then you get back to base and think, 'Wow, that wasn't anything like I expected.'

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

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

The Hall of Fame is pretty good at preparation and getting you ready for what to expect.

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.