Saadi Quotes

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

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

Education without execution is extinction

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

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

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

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

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

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To know food only theoretically is to always remain hungry. You must eat to satisfy hunger. So he who seeks new doctrines continuously but does not put them into practice in his life is in continual spiritual starvation.

Knowledge must come through action.

Words without experience are meaningless.

It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

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 is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

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

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.