Quotes About Reflection

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

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

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.

[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

For balance to be restored, lessons must be learned

time never heals everything in life, but memories do

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

There are no failures - only feedback.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.