Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. 553
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. 2.06K
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. 513
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. 2.35K
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. 2.43K
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. 506
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. 625
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. 529
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 revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. 945
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. 564
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. 552
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. 553
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. 571