Quotes on Knowledge Experience

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

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.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.