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to know and not to do is not to know

When you say you know something yet you fail to act as if that knowledge were true, it shows you don't really know that something to be true; it essentially calls the person a hypocrite since they say one thing and do another; same as the phrase "Your actions speak so loudly that your words I cannot hear"
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A person asserts that a certain product is the only product worth using then you see them using a competing product. You could think or say to them, "To know and not to do is not to know"

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Submitted by TriplePurple on December 01, 2023

Modified by TriplePurple on March 20, 2024

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