Richard Russo Quotes

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

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Without knowledge we cannot act; with it we can and will.

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

When you show people good information, they make good decisions.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant …

I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you've already learned.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.