How many times have we known people who failed to live up to their potential because they couldn't find the answer to a problem in a book or manual written by somebody else?
Often, creativity goes hand in hand with the type of leadership that gets things done and that motivates people. It is important to be well informed, but as this quote states, we need to take what we learn and make it into something else:
Stagnant Truth
"Do not mistake acquirement of mere knowledge for power. Like food, these things must be digested and assimilated to become life or force. Learning is not wisdom; knowledge is not necessarily vital energy. The student who has to cram through a school or a college course, who has made himself merely a receptacle for the teacher's thoughts and ideas, is not educated; he has not gained much. He is a reservoir, not a fountain. One retains, the other gives forth. Unless his knowledge is converted into wisdom, into faculty, it will become stagnant like still water.--J. E. Dinger (Lyte, Clyde Francis., ed. Leaves of Gold. Coslett Publishing, 1948. pg 59)
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