Thomas Brooks Quotes

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

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

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

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.

Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.

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

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

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

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.

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

What men do matters more than what they know.

That which you condemn will condemn you, and that which you judge, you will one day become.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.

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.