“Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
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.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
“Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Source: The Complete Essays
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
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
Samuel Johnson book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 41
“Without devotion, knowledge is tasteless. Without knowledge, devotion is mere empty idol worship.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“A Race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots.”
Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur
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