Quotes about Experience
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
— Oscar Wilde
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
— Albert Einstein
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
— Publilius Syrus
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
— George Bernard Shaw
Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.
— John Maxwell
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
— Publilius Syrus
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
— Oprah Winfrey
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
— Jack Kerouac
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
— Khalil Gibran
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
— DH Lawrence
No man was ever wise by chance.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca