Dalai Lama Quotes

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

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

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

Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.

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

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

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

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Do more than believe: practice.

Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.

If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.

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

Insight must precede application.

A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

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

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.