Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Let us be about setting high standards for life love creativity and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No it is bought with the price of all the man hath his house his wife his children.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

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

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection which is the highest. The second is limitation which is the easiest. The third is experience which is the bitterest.

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.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Experience comprises illusions lost rather than wisdom gained.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools equipped with tortures called an education.

For all my education accomplishments and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Data is not information information is not knowledge knowledge is not understanding understanding is not wisdom.