W. Edwards Deming Quotes

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Without theory, there are no questions.

Without theory we can only copy.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

When you teach, you learn.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

Fear dims when you learn things.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

Education doesn't make you smarter.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.