Quotes About Experience

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

The saddest thing in life is to die without living.

What happens in you is more important than what happens to you.

The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained.

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

Schooling will give you knowledge to make your living, but education is for living a life.

When we learn to enjoy success as well as failure, we will be eternally happy and joyful for sure.

Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun.