
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”
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“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”
Source: Sociology and modern systems theory (1967), P. 186.
Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Design of Inquiring Systems (1971), p. 11
“Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.”
This has been attributed to Crowley on the internet, but without citation. No incidents of it in Crowley's works have as yet been located.
This was quoted as an "occult tradition" in Fundamentals of Experimental Psychology (1976) by Charles Lawrence Sheridan, p. 17, but without any reference to Crowley.
Disputed
Variant: Knowledge is power and knowledge shared is power lost.
“Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "File and forget."”
Epilogue.
Invisible Man (1952)
Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. 77
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”