Quotes About Wisdom

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.

The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Every book is a unique experience.

Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.

I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth.

If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.

Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past.

No experience is ever wasted.

The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations.