John Carmack Quotes

Knowledge is potential; action is power.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

When you know more, you can do more.

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

You can do more, you can always do more.

The more things you do, the more you can do.

The more we do, the more we can do.

The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.

One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.

The more one does the more one can do.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.

When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen

Reading is good, action is better.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

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

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.

Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

You've got to create the space, then fill it.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.