Wisdom And Experience Quotes

One of the great blessings of the plan is that we are organized into families. You have parents whose greater wisdom and experience will help you reach your divine potential. Trust them. They want the best for you.

Travel moulds a man, people mould his wisdom and experiences mould his life...!

President Wilford Woodruff is a man of wisdom and experience, and we respect and venerate him, but we do not believe his personal views or utterances are revelations from God; and when Thus saith the Lord, comes from him, the saints investigate it: they do not shut their eyes and take it down like a pill.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well. You need a mentor, a seasoned coach who is willing to share his wisdom and experience with you. Ask someone who has already been successful to guide you.

Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.

The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and adults. Far from benefiting only men, marriage confers enormous advantages on women and children as well - a fact that has been thrown into sharp relief by its breakdown over the past forty years.

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.

To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The years teach much which the days never know.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.