Paulo Coelho Quotes

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

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

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

The wise are above books.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

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

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Common sense is not so common.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

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

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

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

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

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

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.