Francis of Assisi Quotes

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

I'd say I learned a lot. It's all about whether or not I can apply it.

All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

What you know is what you know, both culturally and practically, and you use it to the greatest effect you can.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

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