100+ Interesting Quotes About Wisdom and Experience
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. – Charles Dickens
A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he has experienced what he is trying to tell of. – Jack Kerouac
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Holmes
A symptom of wisdom is curiosity. The evidence is calmness and perseverance. The causes are experimentation and understanding. – Maxime Lagacé
Adversity brings knowledge and knowledge wisdom. – Welsh proverb
Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing. – Sonia Sotomayor
And here in this room, I re-experience the memories, again and again, it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future. – Lois Lowry
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. – George Bernard Shaw
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. – M. Scott Peck
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. – Bob Marley
Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience. – Tarthang Tulku
Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes. – Rick Riordan
Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward. – Brian Tracy
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn’t reduce our follies. – Josh Billings
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
Experience is the teacher of all things. – Julius Caesar
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. – George Washington
Failure is instructive. The person who thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. – John Dewey
Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone. – Debbie Ford
Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom. – Suzy Kassem
Focus on what’s ahead. Use what is behind. – Donita K. Paul
From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain are the fertilizer for wisdom. – T.F. Hodge
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. – William Saroyan
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. – Zhuangzi
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson
I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to “do,” or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception. – Nikki Reed
I must acquire my information, build my knowledge, and, through experience, transform it into the treasured gold of wisdom. – Rachel Caine
If experience is the best teacher, there’s nothing that comes close to the experience of life. – Michael A. Singer
If money is your hope for independence, you will never, have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. – Henry Ford
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. – Holly Near
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in the revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. – Mao Zedong
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. – Ansel Adams
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need the experience to gain wisdom. – Albert Einstein
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? – Voltaire
It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience – to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears – and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. – Henry David Thoreau
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. – Roger Ascham
Judgment comes from experience. Great judgment comes from a bad experience. – Bob Packwood
Knowledge and experience do not necessarily speak the same language. – Benjamin Hoff
Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living. – Anthony Douglas Williams
Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge. – best teacher. Other people’s experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great. – Andy Andrews
Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war, but only wisdom – desire coordinated in the light of all experience – can tell us when to heal and when to kill. – Will Durant
Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you. – Germany Kent
The best medicine that a person can have is the knowledge and experience that he can swim through every tide and change of the time. If you have the mental competency to deal with every situation that arises, then you are very happy, very healthy and a very well-balanced person. – Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought. – James Allen
The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life every day – Munia Khan
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. – Samuel Smiles
The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought. – Hosea Ballou
The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience. – Gregg Braden
The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man’s possession and property by his free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown. – Samuel Smiles
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. – Thomas Paine
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult in one’s life. – Dalai Lama
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. – Isaac Asimov
The wisdom and experience of older people are a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society. – Daisaku Ikeda
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. – Benjamin Disraeli
There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life… the only college where everyone is a permanent student. – E.A. Bucchianeri
There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived. – Amy Grant
To assault the total culture is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind’s wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted. – Judith Malina
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. – Joe Abercrombie
Travel moulds a man, people mould his wisdom and experiences mould his life.! – Sujit Lalwani
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. – Josh Billings
Turn your wounds into wisdom. – Oprah Winfrey
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. – Marcel Proust
We get very little wisdom from success, you know. – William Saroyan
We learn from failure, not from success! – Bram Stoker
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there. – Mark Twain
What we have to learn, in both meditation and life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. – Soygal Rinpoche
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs. – Thomas A Kempis
When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates. – Frederick Lenz
When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience. – Jaeda DeWalt
When we serve, we experience, when we experience we teach, when we teach we learn when we learn our lives are permanently changed, and as our lives are changed we are enriched beyond our wildest dreams. – Jarenl Davis
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. – Carl Gustav Jung
Wisdom comes alone through suffering. – Aeschylus
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of a lack of wisdom. – Terry Pratchett
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. – Gabriel García Márquez
Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you’ve got to take the candle and walk alone. – Lauren Kate
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. – William Stafford
Wisdom is meaningless unless our own experience has given it meaning. – Bergen Evans
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. – Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not the same as information; it’s something entirely different. It’s often mistaken as good advice, but wisdom cannot be imparted to someone. Wisdom can only be earned; it’s a by-product of experience, not necessarily knowledge. – Renee Carlino
Wisdom is the daughter of experience. – Leonardo Da Vinci
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. – Thomas J. Watson
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of the experience. – David Bentley Hart
Wisdom is the reward for surviving our stupidity. – Brian Rathbone
Wisdom is the reward of experience and should be shared. – Unknown
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. – Sophocles
Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning. – Anton Chekhov
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. – Hal Borland
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience, or interests. – Brian Tracy
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