Francis Quarles Quotes

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

Experience is a great teacher.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Information is not knowledge.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Nobody is born wise.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

With age comes wisdom.

I think with experience and age, you gain knowledge and wisdom.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.