Patrick Henry Quotes

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.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

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

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Experience is a great teacher.

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.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Experience is the pocket-compass that few think of consulting until they have lost their way.

You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I feel like there's value in experience.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

You gotta learn a lesson as you go through life.

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.