Wisdom is knowledge rightfully applied…

• Wisdom: Knowledge rightly applied. We assimilate lots of knowledge. Whether or not we do anything with that knowledge is a measure of our wisdom. That implies some change … and change can be difficult. Hyrum W. Smith
• Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use. Mark Twain
• 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. Charles H. Spurgeon
• Wisdom is knowledge rightly applied. We assimilate lots of knowledge. Whether or not we do anything with that knowledge is a measure of our wisdom. Hyrum W. Smith

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…resulting in the maximum good for ourselves and the greater whole

• Knowledge is a thing you can carry around with you, but you may not apply it. Some knowledge is indiscriminate, and it can be damaging. I recently found a wonderful definition of wisdom: It is that thing which results in the maximum good and the least harm. Cat Stevens
• Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom. Herbert Simon
• We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want. Jim Rohn

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Wisdom, if not applied, is not wisdom

• A lot of people have knowledge, but they don’t have the wisdom of when to apply that knowledge. Jim Cleamons
• Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread. Austin O’Malley
• Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through. Jarod Kintz
• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being. Orison Swett Marden
• Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Horace
• Other people’s wisdom is only your information. Until you live it for yourself, it’s merely data. Danielle LaPorte

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Wise principles are only meaningful if applied

• The principles only work if you work the principles. Jack Canfield
• All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. Theodore M. Hesburgh
• It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• Principles must be put into practice to be meaningful. Anthony Lambert
• Realise that to make a principle part of your life, you must pay the price by actually living it, rather than merely understanding it intellectually. Stephen Covey

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We must constantly practice our wisdom

• Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
• The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
• Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher. Brian Weiss
• An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. Mahatma Gandhi
• Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. John Tillotson
• Better one deep insight regularly reflected on and applied than hundreds of little ideas recorded. Anthony Lambert
• Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach. Buddha
• Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. Martha Graham
• Repeated practice is one of the most basic principles of most spiritual and meditative paths. Whatever you practice most is what you become. Richard Carlson

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In fact, one could define wisdom as a set of practices

• The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it’s a set of practices that have to do with mustering the courage to think critically about ourselves, society, and the world; mustering the courage to empathize; the courage, I would say, to love. Cornel West

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Every act is a chance to practice wisdom

• Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves. Nhat Hanh

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We need to live our wisdom…

• 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. Khalil Gibran
• The end of reading is not more books, but more life. Holbrook Jackson
• Don’t look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it. Mark Twain
• Go put your creed into your deed. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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…if we wish for it to transform our lives

• That which transforms your life is what you practice. And what you practice constitutes your personal laws of life—not what you merely believe in, but what you practice. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions and using your personal power and taking action. Tony Robbins
• Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. Swami Satchidananda

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Truth only becomes truth for us if we live it and practice it

• Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth. Heraclitus
• Truth exists only for each individual when he or she produces it through his or her actions. Soren Kierkegaard
• The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• True freedom is where an individual’s thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct and of honor. Bryant Hill
• When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it. Elbert Hubbard
• Practice the truth you hear and read about, so that it is not just an idea but a conviction born of experience. If reading books on theology satisfies your desire for God, you have not grasped the purpose of religion. Do not settle for intellectual satisfaction about truth. Convert truth into experience, and you will know God through your own Self-realization. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Stand up men and women, dare to believe in the truth, dare to practice the truth! Swami Vivekananda
• Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness. Kathleen Pedersen
• Unlived truth is our greatest problem. D.L. Moody
• It’s easy to talk about spiritual ideals. But, obviously, that means nothing if we don’t LIVE our truths. Brian Johnson
• Live truth instead of professing it. Elbert Hubbard
• Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people’s mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one’s own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge. Buddha

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Wisdom recognises that knowledge must be acted on and applied…

• Knowledge needs to be a verb. Edwards Denning
• Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. Lao Tzu
• The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Thomas Henry Huxley
• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. Carlos Castaneda
• A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Khalil Gibran
• The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is infomation in action, information focused on results. Peter Drucker
• There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. Josh Billings

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…and realises that insight and knowledge without application and practice has little value

• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov
• Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Abdul Kalam
• A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other.
• Whoever acquires knowledge and does not practice it resembles him who plows his land and leaves it unsown. Muslih-uddin Sadi
• Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory. Leonardo da Vinci
• 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. Plato
• Insights are an important part of our growing and developing as human beings, they aren’t all that powerful by themselves. Brad Swift
• Insights are like a pinch in the buttocks. Interesting for the moment but hardly life altering. Brad Swift

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Knowledge is only power when we act on it

• Knowledge might be power, but only when you take action. Richard Keeves
• Knowledge isn’t power until it’s applied. Dale Carnegie
• Knowledge is not power; Implementation is power. Garrison Wynn
• Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom! Takeda Shingen

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The need to apply knowledge and principles applies particularly in our spiritual life

• Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action. Byron Katie
• Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectual understanding, for pride of accomplishment, or as a substitute for actual practice, then one is taking in too much mental food, which is sure to result in intellectual indigestion. Prem Prakash
• To advance spiritually requires a method of practice and determination to carry it out. Allan Lokos
• To read and study and have conversations about spiritual practices is good, but unless you incorporate them into your life, you won’t embody or integrate them—which means you aren’t receiving their benefits. Michael Beckwith
• We can’t feel the wetness of water by looking at photographs of water; we must immerse ourselves in it. We can’t feel the ecstasy of awakened awareness through reading about it; we must find it in our innermost Self. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied. Jack Kornfield
• If you merely collect spiritual information without practicing it, all you will develop is a case of spiritual indigestion and constipation. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Of course, there’s nothing wrong with philosophical speculation. But let’s not mistake conceptual thought for the spiritual practice of everyday life. After all, what does it serve to know whether angels wear earrings if we can’t hold a regular job or maintain a long- term relationship? What good does it do to pray like a saint or meditate like a yogi if we are unchanged when we open our eyes? What good to attend a place of worship on Saturday or Sunday if we lack compassion on Monday? Dan Millman

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To live a life of wisdom, we must put knowledge into practice…

• Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. Matthew Arnold
• It is necessary to combine knowledge born from study with sincere practice in our daily lives. These two must go together. The Dalai Lama
• Knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything. Henry Hazlitt
• The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything. Henry Hazlitt
• You see, knowing the words is not the same thing as living the meaning. Suppose I memorize the printed instructions on a first- aid kit. Does that mean I can give first aid? No. The full meaning comes when I admit I know nothing and then try, practice, succeed. Vernon Howard

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…turning words into deeds

• He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
• However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them? The Dhammapada

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Knowing is not enough; we must do

• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. Leonardo da Vinci
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Bruce Lee
• Man’s business for being here is to know for the sake of living, not to live for the sake of knowing. Frederic Harrison
• It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know. Tony Robbins
• You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Tony Robbins
• To know and not to do is not yet to know. Lao Tzu
• We are what we do, not what we know. Richard Rose
• What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is,in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. John Ruskin
• What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. John Ruskin
• All know the way; few actually walk it. Bodhidharma
• Insights + Action = True Growth and Development. Brad Swift
• It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about. Stephen Richards

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Without practice, knowledge is far from wisdom. It is merely theory

• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Friedrich Engels
• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra
• Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together. Assata Shakur
• Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all practice. It’s the fellow who knows enough about practice to test his theories for blow- holes that gives the world a shove ahead, and finds a fair margin of profit in shoving it. George Horace Lorimer
• Before you’ve practiced, the theory is useless. After you’ve practiced, the theory is obvious. David Williams
• However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice, thou art ignorant. Muslih-uddin Sadi
• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant
• Always think about practice… theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work. Felix Gonzalez-Torres
• It is not enough to know how to do it; one must do it, consistently, in the same way as athletes or musicians must keep practicing what they know in theory. Per Csikszentmihalyi
• Your philosophy may give you a temporary state of euphoria, but if you want to be anchored in reality, it takes practice, practice, practice. We are not here to be euphoric but to get free. Rudimentary spirituality is theory; advanced spirituality is practice. Michael Beckwith
• All theory with no practice leads to spiritual indigestion. Anthony Lambert
• The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe. C. Sproul

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Without practice, a belief is not a belief…

• If what you believe doesn’t affect how you live, then it isn’t very important. Bickel & Jantz
• He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. Thomas Fuller

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…but merely an idea

• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. Buddha
• Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. Richard Bach

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Only through practice can we turn knowledge to skill

• Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill. Shinichi Suzuki
• We can’t get good at something solely by reading about it. And we’ll never make giant leaps in any endeavor by treating it like a snack food that we munch on whenever we’re getting bored. You get good at something by doing it repeatedly. Merlin Mann

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Only through practice can we can test knowledge to gain the wisdom of what works and what doesn’t

• Experiment with your knowledge by applying it to your life, realising that life is just that – an experiment
• Life is trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury
• Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails. Barbara Brown Taylor
• Your life is a kind of laboratory where you’re constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you choose. David Emerald
• You’ve got to experiment to figure out what works. Andrew Weil
• A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Apply what you know and if it proves itself in action, then you know its true value. Anthony Lambert
• Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. Herbert Otto
• Don’t be timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least. Santosh Kalwar