Action Quote by Erving Polster

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

— Joseph Conrad

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

“That is the function of theories—to oversimplify, and thus to assist believers in organizing, weighting, and excluding information. Therein lies the power of theories.…

— Neil Postman

Knowledge without action, is like having no knowledge at all!

— Ted Nicholas

Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches,…

— Fred Edwords

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

— Constantin Brancusi

“Progression halts and learning retrogrades once a haphazard ideology transpires. A nexus of theories can’t disprove one single fact, and a farraginous of opinions…

— Calvin W. Allison

Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a…

— Herbert Spencer

It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means…

— Claude Bernard

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Putting theory into practice is hard for them,” writes Gallagher, “because their sensitive natures and elaborate schemes are unsuited to the heterogeneous rigors of…

— Susan Cain