Quotes on Wisdom And Experience

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

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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.