Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

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

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

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

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war.

Education without execution is extinction

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

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

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

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

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Knowledge must come through action.

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

All genuine education comes about through experience.

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.