“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
No published occurrence of such an attribution has yet been located prior to one in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre — Band 3 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2411/pg2411.html by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Disputed
Variant: Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
Variant: I am not young enough to know everything.
Speaking as the Director of USIA, in testimony before a Congressional Committee (May 1963) http://pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org/?page_id=6
Context: American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.”
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
