Quotes on Wisdom Experience

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

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

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.

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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

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.