Quotes About Wisdom

Strangest thing is, you learn the value of experience only with experience

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

I try not to have regrets and to learn from every experience.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing