Wisdom Acquisition Quotes

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

I believe in outgrowing a mentor and getting a new one, and I think that you can never be too old to be schooled by your mentor.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the characters I'm writing about, something happens that they move from wherever they are in the beginning to knowledge or wisdom, they know something they never would have acknowledged or realized if it hadn't been for my book - that for me is what literature does.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

In terms of the past, I think we've all learned from the past. I think that's great wisdom.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

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

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.