Quotes About Wisdom

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that,.

I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.

Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

It's hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

Every experience is worth having.

A man can't retire his experience.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.