Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Related Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are... CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are... C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. MARCUS AURELIUS A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know. DEBASISH MRIDHA Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM You are always afraid that somebody may think you a fool. You are afraid that if others think you to... OSHO The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. RALPH WALDO EMERSON How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely.... DAN SMITH A fool is only a fool when he doesn't know he's a fool. But if a fool knows he's a fool, then there ... FATHOM – and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try... RICHARD FEYNMAN A wise man knows to say he does not know but a fool claims to know until it is apparent by all that ... KEVIN I.E2 GBOBOH To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Great Men & Fools do often me InspireBut the Greater Fool the Greater Liar. WILLIAM BLAKE It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. BIBLE War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. SAMUEL JOHNSON PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA The difference between a fool and a wise person: You will easily know when the fool is annoyed, but ... THE INSPIRATIONIST It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. PROVERB A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. WELSH PROVERB A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. WELSH PROVERB 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like It. Act v... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Every wise man is a damn fool for at least five minutes everyday; wisdom lies in 'not exceeding the ... QAMAR KHAN QURESHI You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the... JOAN D. VINGE Knowledge is to know something. Wisdom is to feel something. JIM GENOVESE He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER When a not-doing comes upon you, and there is no reflection of yourself to be found, many things can... LUJAN MATUS It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has... HAROLD MACMILLAN The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE Wisdom is greater than knowledge,but imagination is greater than both wisdom & knowledge. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of informa... RACHEL CAINE The fool thinks he is wise and the wise thinks he is not a fool. VIKRANT PARSAI There is a simple rule regarding wisdom: those who have a superficial knowledge cannot be wise. On t... ERALDO BANOVAC 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON A fool who thinks that he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man. The fool who thinks that he... SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BUDDHISM No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a kna... GEORGE SAVILE No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a kna... GEORGE SAVILE Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool. JOSH BILLINGS Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool JOSH BILLINGS Knowledge without the wisdom to use it is useless. However, that same wisdom is powerless without th... BRANDON CHRISTOPHER Knowing how to make money is intelligence; knowing how to use it is wisdom. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Knowledge is the accumulation of truth, wisdom is knowing how to apply it to your life. JOHNNY WALKER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER The saviour answered...and said, If you want to be perfect, you will keep these teachings. If not, y... ANONYMOUS My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is? C. FERN COOK Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know... WILLIAM ALEXANDER Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW To love is to act. VICTOR HUGO When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Measure For Measure WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning ... ISAAC ASIMOV Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom HUGO GROTIUS A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. H. L. MENCKEN And a Fool is supposed to be wise? ROBIN HOBB Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool. L. FRANK BAUM A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self ... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we li... ROBERT JORDAN Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. BRIAN O'DRISCOLL No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while... ERICA JONG Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. What a wise man knows is great, what a fool knows is little, and what God knows is infini... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The river of knowledge has no depth. CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. ANATOLE FRANCE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
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(CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON E'er since by faith I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply Redeeming love has been my the... C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; a... C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at... C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember y... C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little... C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land,... C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The wishing gate opens into nothing. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he ke... C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON We are all at times unconscious prophets. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. C. H. SPURGEON Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Ca... C. H. SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew ... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to ... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not co... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of
affliction.
- Charles Hadden Spurgeon, CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see
what we are made of; they just tu... CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be
in the furnace with them.
- ... CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers
here below. CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we pr... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither. CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON