#Application Quotes

“A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.”

“Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.”

“KNOWLEDGE is only Power to the Extent that it is... U S E D”

“The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.”

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

“He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.”

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

“Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.”

“Knowledge is only potential power.”

“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.”

“Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.”

“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”

“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.”

“It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.”

“To know music is to transfer it to life.”

“Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?”

“How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by "shooting the arrow at the target". As the arrow is to the target, so is Marxism-Leninism to the Chinese revolution. Some comrades, however, are "shooting without a target", shooting at random, and such people are liable to harm the revolution.”

“The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.”

“The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.”

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

“It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement.”

“Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root in their minds, so that they do not know how to use it and their class feelings remain as of old. Others are very conceited and having learned some book-phrases, think them terrific and are very cocky; but whenever a storm blows up, they take a stand very different from that of the workers and the majority of the peasants. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.”

“Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.”

“We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.”

“Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.”

“If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.”

“You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.”

“In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.”

“What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”

“The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.”

“Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.”

“To know and not do, is to not yet know.”

“To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?”

“The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.”

“To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned”