Quotes About Wisdom

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

I don't have any regrets. There's no point regretting anything because everything that you do gives you more experience and potentially makes you a stronger person or a better person.

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

Experiment is folly when experience shows the way.

In every country, it's different, and you have to be flexible and slow and careful, and in the end rely on the experience of others who have gone before you and have begun to figure these things out.

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.

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