Quotes About Application

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

All models are wrong; some models are useful.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

There is a big difference between just learning something, and actually LIVING what you learn.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of it. I really wish he had finished his thought.)

el Nuevo Testamento no solo se construye sobre el Antiguo Testamento, sino que también explica, interpreta y aplica el Antiguo Testamento.

You do not simply, mindlessly, implement the best practices. You have to think deeply about your condition. If the "best practice" seems like a useful countermeasure for your problem, you should learn from the best practice; however, what may have worked in some other place may not work for you without adjustment and even further improvement.

In a world of conceptual frameworks, fancy graphics presentations, and, in general, lots of words, there is much too little appreciation for the power, and indeed the necessity, of not just talking and thinking but of doing—and this includes explaining and teaching—as a way of knowing. Rajat

Most answer reveal themselves through doing, not thinking.

Most answers reveal themselves through doing, not thinking.

Knowledge that is not used is often wasted, and it is shameful to waste anything, especially anything as valuable as knowledge.

For even sheep do not vomit up their grass and show to the shepherds how much they have eaten; but when they have internally digested the pasture, they produce externally wool and milk. Do you also show not your theorems to the uninstructed, but show the acts which come from their digestion.

For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested. 47.

The man has to learn 'what each specific thing means', as Socrates often said, and stop casually applying preconceptions to individual cases. This is the cause of everyone's troubles, the inability to apply common preconceptions to particulars. Instead the opinions of men as to what is bad diverge.

The whole point of learning is to live out the teachings.

If you didn't learn these things in order to demonstrate them in practice, what did you learn them for?

For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested.

It is not reasonings that are wanted now,' he says, 'for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings. What is wanted, then? The man who shall apply them; whose actions may bear testimony to his doctrines. Assume this character for me, that we may no longer make use in the schools of the examples of the ancients, but may have some examples of our own.

It is not reasonings that are wanted now for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings. What is wanted, then? The man who shall apply them; whose actions may bear testimony to his doctrines. Assume this character for me, that we may no longer make use in the schools of the examples of the ancients, but may have some examples of our own.

Philosophy is for living, not just learning.