Firsthand Knowledge Quotes

I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

I think people have a responsibility, if they write a letter, to make sure that they saw it themselves and it's not hearsay.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep

He who tastes not, knows not.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the best way to understand it was to get close to it on the ground level.

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

All I know is what I've lived through, so this is what I know.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.

You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.