Top 100 Quotes About Knowledge And Action
#1. Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.
Karen Hawkins
#2. He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.
Anonymous
#4. Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.
Max De Pree
#5. The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.
John Desmond Bernal
#6. The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action
Denis Waitley
#7. Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action
George MacDonald
#8. In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Martha Beck
#9. The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#10. 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
#11. Mere knowledge is not power; it is only possibility. Action is power; and its highest manifestation is when it is directed by knowledge.
Theodore W. Palmer
#12. 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
#13. Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.
Debasish Mridha
#14. So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.
Criss Jami
#15. If love is an attraction,
then love may be the first.
If life is the source of all creation,
then love might be the point of action.
Let life and love live together
Let's love win over life forever.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
Thucydides
#17. In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.
Thich Thien-An
#18. No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
Thomas Jefferson
#19. Millions of people who falsely believe that "knowledge is power." It is nothing of the sort! Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
Anonymous
#20. Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#22. First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.
Swami Vivekananda
#23. Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
Napoleon Hill
#24. Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.
Narendra Modi
#25. 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
#26. Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
Friedrich Schiller
#27. With great vision, strong determination, and persistent action, everyone is capable of achieving greatness.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action.
Debasish Mridha
#29. A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
Plutarch
#30. 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
#31. Empire of Deception is a sure thing
a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has found a fascinating yet little-known jazz-age tale and told it with style and smarts. Get in on the action.
Jonathan Eig
#32. Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.
Fulton J. Sheen
#33. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning.
Thomas Huxley
#34. Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation.
Debasish Mridha
#36. For Augustine, that's the crucial change. Knowledge is not enough for tranquillity and goodness, because it doesn't contain the motivation to be good. Only love impels action. We don't become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves.
David Brooks
#37. Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.
Bruce Lee
#38. In order to have real prayer and action to change things, we must have conviction as to the need of prayer and action. In order to have conviction as to the need of prayer and action, we must have knowledge.
John Mott
#39. Success is not about your techniques, it's not solely about the wisdom or the knowledge you have, it's about your mindset and your actions.
Steve Maraboli
#40. You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.
Phil McGraw
#41. Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
Mahatma Gandhi
#42. Every action has an effect, to change the society act with kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Don't wish ... DO! Don't try ... BE! Don't think ... KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?
T.F. Hodge
#44. All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
Hermann Von Helmholtz
#45. As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.
John Olver
#47. Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr
#48. Have the imagination, create the vision, go with passion, and take the action; you will achieve all of your goals.
Debasish Mridha
#49. It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
Philip Sidney
#50. Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
Charles Lindbergh
#51. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'
Ralph Ellison
#52. The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.
Jurgen Habermas
#53. Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
Robert G. Ingersoll
#54. 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
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Happiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions.
Debasish Mridha
#60. 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
#62. 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
#63. A day without gratitude, kindness, and compassion,
is a day full of useless action.
Debasish Mridha
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Let's have a life with momentum and action. Set a goal for every day and every season.
Debasish Mridha
#73. Imagination and action are the mothers of all creation.
Debasish Mridha
#74. Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.
Debasish Mridha
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#79. The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
Mort Sahl
#80. Walk through the past and learn the way. I am walking through the present, taking action every day. I am preparing for the future in a great way.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Be gentle, confident and action-oriented. Remember, your actions will make a difference.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self's relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#83. Growth follows knowledge;
action follows inspiration;
opportunity follows perception;
always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite
and illimitable possibilities of achievement.
Charles F. Haanel
#84. A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Knowledge without implementation is but mere information. True knowledge transcends the barrier of the mind and bears fruit within action
T. Haque
#86. How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
Sai Baba
#88. Regret doesn't make sense to me. I have none. Because I realize that what I do at any given moment, is my decision to make, already accepting either benefit or consequence of that action. So, regret is a useless word, and knowledge is the result.
Gypsie M. Holley
#89. Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.
David Deida
#90. The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.
Ralph Nader
#91. Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.
Napoleon Hill
#92. What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Thomas Carlyle
#93. Do your own thing with love and passion. You will be happy, no matter the result of your action.
Debasish Mridha
#94. Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
#95. I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
Hans Blix
#96. Optimistic curiosity and persistent goal oriented action bring more success than anything else.
Debasish Mridha
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge
Albert Bandura
