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I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
Sep 18, 2025
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.
Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
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.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.
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 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 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.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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.
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