Applied Wisdom Quotes

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that. He is full of wisdom applied to human relations,--to the private life,--the family,--government, etc. It is remarkable that, according to his own account, the sum and substance of his teaching is, as you know, to do as you would be done by.

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.