Top 74 Knowledge Without Action Quotes
#1. Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.
Abdul Kalam
#2. Knowledge without action, is like having no knowledge at all!
Ted Nicholas
#3. Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr
#4. Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
Al-Ghazali
#5. Knowledge without action cost money
David Bach
#6. The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.
Richard Pascale
#7. Happiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Attitude is that litmus test which differentiates a knower from a doer. Knowers have only the skills; doers have the skills and the will to do what they know!
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
#10. You build a reputation by your action, not by your imagination.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.
George Washington Goethals
#12. Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge
Albert Bandura
#13. Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
#14. the great aim of education,' said Herbert Spencer, 'is not knowledge but action.
Dale Carnegie
#15. Many Karate teachers teach a watered down style - no hip action and no depth of punching - so it is easy to say that these teachers have no depth to their knowledge. You are what your teacher is, and if he knows a lot, you should be able to demonstrate this knowledge.
Higa Yuchoku
#16. The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.
David Amerland
#20. The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action
Denis Waitley
#21. You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.
Debasish Mridha
#22. An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Knowledge without love is worse than ignorance. Action without love is madness...
Edgar Maass
#24. Action without knowledge can be worse than inaction
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#25. Every action ('doing') causes bondage. 'Doing' is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, 'action' of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.
Dada Bhagwan
#26. Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn.
James A. Belasco
#28. Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.
Shawn Achor
#29. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'
Ralph Ellison
#30. A good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient without action
Howard Zinn
#31. Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.
Erving Polster
#32. How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#33. Knowledge without implementation is but mere information. True knowledge transcends the barrier of the mind and bears fruit within action
T. Haque
#34. The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical ...
Amanda Dubin
#35. Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.
Jim Rohn
#36. Where I am today, it is my current destination, I was preparing for this my whole life. Today's decision and persistent action will take me my future destination.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.
Merrit Malloy
#38. The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.
Peter Drucker
#39. The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness of I am pure Soul [gnan bhaav, knowledge intent], will grant liberation.
Dada Bhagwan
#40. Let's have a life with momentum and action. Set a goal for every day and every season.
Debasish Mridha
#41. You've no doubt heard the saying 'knowledge is power.' I disagree. Knowledge is only powerful if you use it, if you act on it.
Brian Moran
#42. When you take an action to improve humanity, you are happy.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Autonomy ... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.
Thomas Szasz
#45. Knowledge is key, without knowledge, leadership, and action plans that fit the actual challenges, all of our businesses and organizations are lost. By providing training, offering moments to come together and exchange best practices all of us can stay on top of our field.
Inge Ignatia De Waard
#46. Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
Karl Jaspers
#47. The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.
Leon Wieseltier
#48. Because of barriers of knowledge, barriers of state, and barriers of action, seeing your own buddha nature is like seeing color at night.
Thomas Cleary
#49. He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
E. M. Forster
#50. What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?
Susan Cain
#51. Imagination and action are the mothers of all creation.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.
Debasish Mridha
#53. The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.
Samuel Smiles
#54. Knowledge is only potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be applied. Most people know what they should do in any given situation, or in their lives, for that matter. The problem is that they don't take daily, consistent action to apply the knowledge and realize their dreams.
Robin S. Sharma
#55. It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
Immanuel Kant
#56. PUBLISHER'S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action.
Maa Krishna Sri Aurobindo
#57. A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the law of that which is to be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Plotinus
#61. In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope.
Diahann Carroll
#64. People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.
Anthony Burgess
#65. Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain...
Dante Alighieri
#66. A day without gratitude, kindness, and compassion,
is a day full of useless action.
Debasish Mridha
#67. Knowledge is not the power; it is the potential power. Willing is not the action, but potential action.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Remember that knowledge alone is not power. Only knowledge plus action is power.
Robert Palasciano
#69. The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
Thomas Hobbes
#70. Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing.
T.F. Hodge
#71. Creativity comes from curious, intuitive, persistent action.
Debasish Mridha
#72. When happiness depends on a situation or creation, it is not happiness; it is the joy of action.
Debasish Mridha
#73. All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments.
Meera Uberoi
#74. Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
