acquiring wisdom Quotes

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.

When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

No man ever became wise by chance.