Guglielmo Marconi Quotes

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

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

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

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

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

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

I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.

Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

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

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.