Quotes About Experience

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.

Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.

The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.

All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.

I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.

I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.

All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.

“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.

I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:

Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?

And no one after drinking old wine wants new, for he says, ëThe old is better.í”

But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”

After the voice had spoken, only Jesus was present with them. The disciples kept this to themselves, and in those days they did not tell anyone what they had seen.

They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.

“Come and see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and spent that day with Him. It was about the tenth hour.