#wisdom

If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience. ↗

— John Gray

#experience #life-lessons #wisdom #experience

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#influence #influences #observations #proverb #proverbial-wisdom

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life...the only college where everyone is a permanent student. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#learning #learning-from-mistakes #learning-process #life-experience #life-lessons

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult. ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#wisdom #experience

Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason... ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#wisdom #experience

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. ↗

— Greg Anderson

#areas #creativity #day #decade #every

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#love #wisdom #experience

Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing. ↗

— Lisa Tenzin-Dolma

#asteroid #astrology #chiron #healer #healing

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#despair #immortality #wisdom #death

A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#beat #early-stories-and-other-writings #experience-mistakes-wisdom #jack-kerouac #man