Dalai Lama Quotes

Knowledge must come through action.

It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Education without execution is extinction

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard 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.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.