Gene Wolfe Quotes

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

What men do matters more than what they know.

Count the deed, not the thought.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.

In the end, what counts is what you do.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

What you are will show in what you do.

Whether someone signs something is not what's important. It's what they do and how they do it that matters.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.

What you do and what you say has consequence and impact. Impact is determined by the intention behind your words and the intention behind your deeds.

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.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

Men must not only know, they must act.

Action is redemption.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.