Herm Edwards Quotes

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Nobody is born wise.

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

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

All experience is good experience.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

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.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.