Napoleon Hill Quotes

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

Some things that are true are not very useful.

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

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

Knowledge is potential; action is power.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.