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.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters the decision is made by committee and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead who have nothing of peevishness pride or design in their conversation.

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

During the long process of history by relying on our own diligence courage and wisdom Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Wisdom prudence forethought these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right and leaves the consequences to God.

Without courage wisdom bears no fruit.