Quotes About Wisdom

Experience is a safe guide.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

Experience is the highest level of knowing.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

My favorite business book of all time is experience.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.

[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

Some people have nothing but experience.

In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.