Quotes about Experience
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
— CS Lewis
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
— William Saroyan
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
— Paul Tillich
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
— Charles Dickens
You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.
— Robin Sharma
Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise
— Beth Moore
I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
— Bishop TD Jakes
God lets you go through challenges to give you credibility in a certain area and the ability to help someone else out of a situation that you once were in.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The slower journey allows time for maturity and experience to shape you into the person who comfortably fits into your destiny.
— Bishop TD Jakes
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
— Bishop TD Jakes