Practical Knowledge Quotes

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.

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

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

I received most of my business education around the dinner table. Whether I listened to my father or brothers, or we had business people as dinner guests, I learned from everyone.

Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

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

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

All experience is good experience.

I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.

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

All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.

Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else. And root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

Knowledge must come through action.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.