Book Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

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

— Horace

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else…

— Joan Erikson

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

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

— Frederick Lenz

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you…

— Ajahn Chah

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass.

— Japanese Proverb

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

— Paul Ricoeur

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

— Robert S. Jepson, Jr

Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

— Toni Morrison

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

— Orison Swett Marden

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

— Bergen Evans