Quotes About Wisdom

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

The reward of suffering is experience

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Experience is the highest authority.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

There is no substitute for experience

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.