You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom.
Category: wisdom
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.