Cesar Millan Quotes

There's more learning than is taught in books.

Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

The best university is the university of life.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

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

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

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

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.