I found out, through direct experience, that it can't.

我发现，通过直接经验，那不能这样做。

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We learn through direct experience; to accept a theory without experiencing it is to learn nothing at all.

我们通过直接经验学习；没有通过实践而接受一个理论是学不到任何东西的。

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We learn through direct experience; to accept a theory without experiencing it is to learn nothing at all.

我们通过直接经验来学习，如果没有通过体验来接受一个理论就等于根本没学。

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Or is it a bucolic reverie the elements of which have come to them not through direct experience, but the media?

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We read books about self-realization, we visit seminars, we think about how to develop our full potential and while everything we hear might make sense to us, real change can only happen through direct experience and the most immediate experience is a big, long dip into the magic world of our feelings and emotions.

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But even as money is lost, epistemological profit is gained, distilled through the learning effects of direct experience.

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