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Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think. This is true for kids and adults — for schoolrooms and nations.

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

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What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.

What is the use of all knowledge, if one does not act in accordance with it? This remark implies that knowledge is regarded as a means to action, and the latter as the real end. One could put the question the other way round and ask: How can we possibly act well without knowing what the Good is? This way of expressing it would regard knowledge as conditioning action. But both expressions are one-sided, and the truth is that both, knowledge as well as action, are in the same way inseparable elements of rational life.

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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

Knowledge is power: You hear it all the time but knowledge is not power. It's only potential power. It only becomes power when we apply it and use it.

Somebody who reads a book and doesn't apply it, they're at no advantage over someone who's illiterate.

None of it works unless YOU work. We have to do our part. If knowing is half the battle, action is the second half of the battle.

Knowledge alone is not power, knowledge plus action equals power. Knowledge is useless without action and vice versa.

Knowledge is only
potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be
applied.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

About the only way we know whether we believe or not is by what we do

The real test of ‘knowledge’ is not whether it is true, but whether it empowers us.

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