Chinese Proverb Quotes

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

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

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

Do more than believe: practice.

It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.