He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.
Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.
A man learns with age, if he is lucky.
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.
Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.
Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.
The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Experience is a safe guide.
The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.
I've learned a lot just being able to see things clearer.
To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.
The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y
When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.
you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!
Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.
I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.
Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.
In all your getting, get understanding.
