Quotes about Wisdom of Experience
Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.
— Napoleon Hill
A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
— John Keats
Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...
— Charles Dickens
Therefore, as we grow older, let us be more thankful that the circle of our Christmas associations and of the lessons that they bring, expands!
— Charles Dickens
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
— Thomas Monson
Because a lot of the time ever when I say anything about how the world is goin to hell in a handbasket people will just sort of smile and tell me I'm gettin old.
— Cormac McCarthy
Here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road.
— Walt Whitman
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
— Oscar Wilde
The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.
— Mark Twain
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
— Joseph Campbell
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
— Walt Whitman