Famous Quotes About wisdom

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.