Quotes about Experience
Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.
- John Maxwell
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
- Publilius Syrus
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
- Jack Kerouac
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
- Khalil Gibran
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
- DH Lawrence
No man was ever wise by chance.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.
- Maya Angelou
Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.
- Aesop
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
- Thomas Merton
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
- Publilius Syrus