Norman Angell Quotes

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the deep truths physicists describe about the origin and functioning of the universe have little practical import and do not change our picture of the meaning of the universe and our place within it, then knowing them would not count as wisdom.

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

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn' t that worth something? He existed.

All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life.

An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.