Quotes About Wisdom

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

Age is really just a number to me and means every year I get to experience so much more.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

Experience makes us wise.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.