Provoked with Henry Rollins, House of Blues, New Orleans, September 21, 2007
“Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.”
“Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.”
Source: The Complete Essays
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”
To keep silently in mind what one has seen and heard, to study hard and never feel contented, to teach others tirelessly; have I done (all of) these things?
Source: The Analects, Other chapters
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 41
“Without devotion, knowledge is tasteless. Without knowledge, devotion is mere empty idol worship.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“A Race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots.”
Though often attributed to Garvey, this statement first appears in Charles Siefert's 1938 pamphlet, The Negro's or Ethiopian's Contribution to Art.
Misattributed
