Andrew Marvell Quotes

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

The human mind has no frontiers, it extends proportionately as the universe displays itself; man, then, can and must attempt all, and he needs only time in order to know all

I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows .

We have to know before we can act.

We can enhance our intelligences, but I am never going to become Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Pele.

Do as you like--if you know what it is.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

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

What men do matters more than what they know.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

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