Does anyone remember how this proverb goes exactly?

<p>Does anyone know the this how this proverb is stated exactly: "It is great when you can learn something new, but it is priceless when you can see it in action" Its a gonna be a part of my essay. Appreciate the help</p>

<p>please, anybody? Someone please attempt to fix my horribly incorrect proverb, I really need it for one of my essays</p>

<p>I don't know this proverb either, but its good that you didn't remember it. You don't want a cliche hanging around in your essay</p>

<p>are u being sarcastic?</p>

<p>try googling it?</p>

<p>cant find it, but have you heard something like it before?</p>

<p>sounds familiar..i think it was a part of the choices of quotes for some college's application essays...</p>

<p>maybe for Princeton or Amherst or some other college whose app asks you to write an essay based on a quote?</p>

<p>mcb52, its not for some particular college, it actually just a quote i wanted to implement in my own essay</p>

<p>yea i realize that, i'm just suggesting that you might be able to find it in another college's application b/c i'm pretty sure that's where i've seen it before</p>

<p>oh okay ill try to look around</p>

<p>it is considered by many to be in poor taste to use cliches in application essays. That's what One was saying.</p>

<p>If you can't find it, or anything close to it, then it probably doesn't have an English origin, thus a loose translation is fine, that is if you really wanted to run with a clich</p>