Quotes About Wisdom

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

You can either ask the question or experience the answer.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.