Wisdom Development Quotes

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

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

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Focus on what it is that you want, set a realistic goal. Start setting goals that you feel you can accomplish. Don't try to go right to the top in one leap. Every time you accomplish a goal you develop the strength and wisdom to accomplish the next one.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call.