Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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

Wisdom begins at the end.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

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

The wise are above books.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

All experience is good experience.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

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

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

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

I'd like to be very wise.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

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