Werner Herzog Quotes

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

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

The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.

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

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.

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

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

We cannot learn men from books.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

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

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

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

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.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

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.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

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

There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

Knowledge must come through action.