Famous Sayings - The Importance of Wisdom

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with thy getting get understanding.

- Proverbs 4:7

A quick comment about this quote:

When I see this quote I think of how there is a quest for knowledge in many, and how in that quest for knowledge there should be a useful result. That result is that what first seems like data or information should result in knowledge.

Yet the quest should not stop merely at knowledge. In this “information age”, much knowledge abounds indeed. But the quality of that knowledge is another story. Knowledge becomes truly useful and of the highest quality only if it turns into wisdom.

The knowledge that is true and survives the tests of time, change and turmoil as well as experience is called wisdom. Wisdom should also be understood, for without understanding wisdom becomes useless. This quote of scripture narrows it down very quickly…get wisdom, and get understanding…that is foremost the “principal thing”.

What to do with this famous saying:

The next time you learn something new, classify the value of what you learn into information, knowledge and wisdom. There is definitely too much information and perhaps even too much knowledge. You must determine what knowledge is useful to you. But Whatever you do, hold on to wisdom. That’s what really counts.

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