Even scientific knowledge if there is anything to it is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
You can practice to attain knowledge but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
Use your gifts faithfully and they shall be enlarged practice what you know and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
My greatest strength as a child I realize now was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life ever?
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal with takes the imagination by storm and second a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Good humor isn't a trait of character it is an art which requires practice.