Quotes About Wisdom

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

Everything is a learning experience.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.