Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value to people who will multiply value to others.

My name is Mark Cole on the CEO of Maxwell Leadership and today we're talking about a word that often comes to mind when we think of leadership.

And that word is wisdom.

Now, Asandra Carey says, never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.

So in today's lesson, John Maxwell is going to share his own thoughts on wisdom and what it really means to be a wise leader. Plus, he also shares some thoughts on wisdom from Benjamin Franklin.

Once John is done, I will be joined by my co-host, Chris Goady, and we'll discuss John's lesson and discover how Chris and I are attempting to be wise leaders.

Or maybe just wise guys. Anyway, if you'd like to find that out for yourself, I invite you to download our free bonus resource, which is a fill in the blank worksheet that accompanies John's lesson and this too will help you discover how to be more wise in your leadership.

You can find this at MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash wise. Also, if you'd like to join us visually on YouTube, please visit MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash YouTube. We'd love to see you there. And now let's hear from really true wisdom, John Maxwell.

The Hebrew word wisdom means skill in living, suggesting that time, years is a requirement for achieving it.

No, the evangelist in elder states from Bill Graham once said that knowledge is horizontal, but wisdom is vertical. It comes down from above. That I want to give you some wisdom thoughts.

To know what to do with what you know is the essence of wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what to do. And skill is knowing how to do it.

Virtue is doing it. So it's harder to do the doing part is that huh. Wisdom is knowing what to do. Skill is knowing how to do it, but virtue is doing it.

The Israeli Prime Minister of England years ago said the full wonders the wise person asks. We have calpere. Great quote here. Knowledge is proud that it knows so much. Wisdom is humble that it knows so little.

And then there's the Japanese proverb that I love. Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.

That's a Maxwellian. Let's go on in your notes. A wise man learns from his mistakes. A wiser man learns from others mistakes. The wisest man learns from others successes.

And Sandra Carey said, never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living and the other helps you make a life. Now, think about it for a moment.

When we want to quote somebody that seemingly had wisdom, one of the people we quote is Ben Franklin. I mean, in the true. You just kind of quote Ben Franklin as a man who was wise and had some thoughts of wisdom.

And so I pulled out some of my Ben Franklin wisdom quotes from all the stuff that I filed away and I'm going to give them to you. These are just wisdom thoughts from Ben Franklin. Give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

Successfully comes to those who are too busy to look for it. Here we go. Forget your mistakes. But remember what they taught you.

That goes back to a statement. I make a lot of times. Experiences not the best teacher, but evaluated experiences. Here's another Ben Franklin quote, be not afraid of going too slowly. Be afraid of standing still.

Another quote of his, there is more to life than money. Life must have meaning. One more. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. I truly believe that today there is lots of knowledge, but little understanding.

Lots of means, but little meaning. Lots of know how, but little know why. Lots of sight, but little of insight. Those are just some thoughts of wisdom out of my files.

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