Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.
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.
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.