Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

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

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Nobody is born wise.

Some are smart but they are not wise

Intellect is not wisdom.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

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

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

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

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

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

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

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