Quotes About Experience

Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth.

It's amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again.

It's not the destination (of seeking the truth) that creates our dignity or integrity, it's the journey. From Messages From a Grandfather, by Robert Gately

The further you venture down a river the bigger the fish.

Only fools are born wise.

I know a number of clever people who lack wisdom.

A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.

I owe most of my wisdom to the problems I was gifted.

At the school of wisdom, mistake is not just a lesson but, a laboratory

Understanding is important for studying, knowledge is important for teaching, and wisdom is important for living.

One learns wisdom from sorrow, but pleasure is one of the fruits of wisdom.

To know is to memorize.To understand is to utilize.The accumulation of knowledge is learnedness.The accumulation of wisdom is experience.

Wisdom is a reliable companion.

The blind cannot see light, but can feel its warmth.The deaf cannot hear sound, but are aware of its power.

The deaf cannot hear wind, but can feel its touch.The blind cannot see the sun, but can feel its warmth.

You cannot truly know pleasure without pain.You cannot truly know strength without weakness.You cannot truly know joy without sorrow.You cannot truly know hope without despair.

Elders in the dark see better than children in the light.

Sometimes I wonder why I exist with all my vast knowledge, while others exist longer with their clichés.

Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!

Sense howEven the smooth stones acheWith stories of their ownIn the shuddering light of day.

Moments give birth to new memories

Without fools there would be no wisdom.

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.