Jack Vance Quotes

The most bitter pain among men: to have much knowledge but little power.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

We know to much to command ourselves very far.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

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

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

If you can, you must.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

I can say with truth mine is a situation of dignified slavery.

The United Nations inspectors cannot tell us anything that we do not already know nor can they galvanize the world to the action that should be taken.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

I can't do nothing just a little.

Only being able to watch is the hardest thing for any footballer.

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

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

We have to know before we can act.

We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.

People would do better, if they knew better.

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do