"The beginning of knowing and doing" means that practice is the necessary way to acquire cognition; "Knowledge is success" means that only practice can produce real knowledge.

The whole sentence expounds the relationship between practice and cognition. Unity of knowledge and action. Practice is the beginning of knowledge, and knowledge is the sublimation of practice.

This was put forward by Wang Shouren, a thinker in the Ming Dynasty, that is, knowing the truth of things and applying it to reality are inseparable. Knowledge refers to conscience, and action refers to human practice, which is the unity of knowledge and action. Neither behavior is swallowed by knowledge, nor knowledge is swallowed by behavior, and behavior is considered as knowledge; It is an epistemological and practical proposition in China's ancient philosophy, mainly about moral cultivation and practice.

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Historical origin

In the fourth year of Zheng De in Ming Dynasty (1509), Wang Shouren, a psychologist, gave a lecture at Guiyang Institute of Civilization, and put forward the theory of the unity of knowledge and action for the first time. The so-called "integration of knowledge and practice" is not a general relationship between understanding and practice.

"Knowledge" mainly refers to people's moral consciousness and thought.

"Doing" mainly refers to people's moral practice and practical actions. Therefore, the relationship between knowing and doing, that is, the relationship between moral consciousness and moral practice, also includes the relationship between some thoughts and practical actions. Wang Shouren's thought of "unity of knowledge and action" includes the following two meanings.