Robert Ley Quotes

Learn by practice.

I've always trusted my natural instinct because nobody ever taught me how to be on the radio or produce a show, and I never went to broadcasting school or anything like that.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

I never really learned photography.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

When you learn a thing, try to use it sufficiently often not to forget it!

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

It honestly feels like high school or college all over again. You're comfortable; you see the game. You've seen a lot of ups and downs, a lot of good plays and bad plays. They're all in the back of your head. It's all just experience over the years. There are guys that play well as rookies, but it's hard.

By playing, you learn.

The world itself is already a great textbook.