Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

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

If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.

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

By far the best proof is experience.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

I don't think there's any substitute for experience.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Experience is a safe guide.

Yeeres know more then bookes.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.