Francois Rabelais Quotes

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

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

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

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

Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

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

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

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

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

Ideas are useless unless used.

Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Education without execution is extinction

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.