Quotes about Experience
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.
— Maya Angelou
Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.
— Aesop
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
— Thomas Merton
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
— Publilius Syrus
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
— Erica Jong
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]
— Euripides
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
— CS Lewis
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
— William Saroyan
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
— Paul Tillich
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
— Charles Dickens