Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
