 | William Mathews - Success - 1874 - 386 pages
...books, however valuable, is of the nature of learning ; but the experience gained from actual life is wisdom ; and an ounce of the latter is worth a pound of the former. All history shows that the rough work of the world is not done by men of fine culture. Courage is not developed by the study of... | |
 | William Mathews - History - 1874 - 376 pages
...from books, however valuable, is of the nature of learning; but the experience gained from actual life is wisdom; and an ounce of the latter is worth a pound of the former. All history shows that the rough work of the world is not done by men of fine culture. Courage is not developed by the study of... | |
 | William Mathews - Conduct of life - 1873 - 386 pages
...books, however valuable, is of the nature of learning ; but the experience gained from actual life is wisdom ; and an ounce of the latter is worth a pound of the former. All history shows that the rough work of the world is not done by men of tine culture. Courage is not developed by the study of... | |
 | Medicine - 1894 - 76 pages
...gained from books, however valuable, is of the nature of learning; experience gained from outward life is wisdom, and an ounce of the latter is worth a pound of the former. Keep it ever in mind that a reputable name is in all cases the fruit of personal exertions. It is not... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Bookbinding - 1880 - 686 pages
...gained from books, however valuable, is of the nature of learning; experience gained from outward life is wisdom; and an ounce of the latter is worth a pound of the former. Rich mental endowments, thorough culture, great genius, brilliant parts have often existed in company... | |
 | - 1881 - 854 pages
...books, however valuable, is of the nature of learning ; but the experience gained from actual life is wisdom ; and an ounce of the latter is worth a pound of the former. All history shows that the rough work of the world is not done by men of fine culture. Courage is not developed by the study of... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1883 - 396 pages
...books, however valuable, is of the nature of learning ; but the experience gained from actual life is wisdom ; and an ounce of the^ latter is worth a pound of the former. All history shows that the rough work of the world is not done by men of fine culture. Courage is not developed by the study of... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Conduct of life - 1884 - 648 pages
...gained from books, however valuable, is of the nature of learning; experience gained from outward life is wisdom ; and an ounce of the latter is worth a pound of the former. Rich mental endowments, thorough culture, great genius, brilliant parts have often existed in company... | |
 | Jerome Paine Bates - Conduct of life - 1886 - 882 pages
...books, however valuable, is of the nature of learning ; but the experience gained from actual life is wisdom ; and an ounce of the latter is worth a pound of the former. The greatest men in the world have not been elegant and polished scholars. There were wise men in Europe... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1897 - 454 pages
...living by their wits. Such surplus is certain to make trouble. All are determined to live in affluence, if possible — genteelly at all events." The truth...four persons met, three of whom were shepherds on a sheep-farm. One of these had taken a degree at Oxford, another at Cambridge, the third at a German... | |
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No doubt intellectual training is to be prized. But practical knowledge is necessary to make it available. The experience gained from books, however valuable, is of the nature of learning ; but the experience gained from actual life is wisdom ; and an... 