Khalil Gibran Quotes

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Education without execution is extinction

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

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

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.