Quotes about Wisdom
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
— CS Lewis
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
— George Eliot
Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.
— John Maxwell
Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.
— Anne Frank
Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
— John Milton
You don't have to say everything to say something.
— Beth Moore
If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.
— Mother Teresa
A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.
— Tim Tebow
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
— Henry David Thoreau
It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.
— James Madison