Not having heard of it is not as good as having heard of it. Having heard of it is not as good as having seen it. Having seen it is not as good as knowing it. Knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice. Learning arrives at putting it into practice and then stops.

Not having learned it is not as good as having learned it; having learned it is not as good as having seen it carried out; having seen it is not as good as understanding it; understanding it is not as good as doing it. The development of scholarship is to the extreme of doing it, and that is its end and goal. He who carries it out, knows it thoroughly. | As translated in The Works of Hsüntze (1928) by Homer H. Dubs | See also derivatives at "Quote Origin: Tell Me and I Forget; Teach Me and I May Remember; Involve Me and I Learn" at the Quote Investigator

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