Joshua Foer Quotes

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

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

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

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.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

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

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.