Bergen Evans Quotes

I am no police, I don't even have any educational degree, but I have a degree in life management.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Throughout my life, I've seen that everybody has had something to teach me and, strangely, it's always something relevant to what I'm going through at that point.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

Well, it's my age group, anywhere from, I'd say 30 to 70. The biggest comment I get about the book is how honest it is and that people can relate to my circumstances going across the line. Anybody could learn and deal with this book from reading it.

We learn of great things by little experiences.

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

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.