Experience Makes You Wiser Quotes & Sayings

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. — Victor Hugo

I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it. — Theodore Roosevelt

Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do. — Babe Ruth

It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world. — Ernest A. Fitzgerald

Every experience makes us wiser. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You're young," Teft said. "I'm old."
"That makes you wiser, presumably?"
"Damnation no. The only thing it proves is that I've more experience staying alive than you. — Brandon Sanderson

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality. — Harry Shearer

The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him. — F.F. Bruce

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. — Gregory David Roberts

There is no such thing as a "social gospel." It is a misnomer. There is only one Gospel. "If any man preach any other gospel unto you ...
let him be accursed" [Galatians 1:9 KJV]. — Billy Graham

You are in charge, though." Ananda looked at him calmly. "In the perceptions of outsiders, perhaps. But here? I'm the oldest. I have the most experience. My thoughts carry some weight. When our minds are apart I have certain authority. But when we are connected ... the group mind contains me. I'm just one part of it. The decisions it makes are wiser and more just than the ones I can make alone. The insights it can glean and the truths it can reveal are deeper than those I can glimpse alone. I respect that. I am a piece of this, not its master. — Ramez Naam

One must work with time and not against it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Is your life better with him, Anna, or without him? I decided right then, standing on that sidewalk, to stop worrying about things that might never go wrong. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong. — Basil The Great

It's pretty rare to find someone you actually like to be with in this world. There are a lot of annoying people out there. — Sarah Dessen

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know. — Ben Shahn