Quotes About Wisdom

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.

If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.

I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.