“Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.”
Oromis
Eldest (2005)
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“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old
“He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.”
Feliciter is sapit, qui alieno periculo sapit.
Mercator, Act IV, scene 7, line 40
Mercator (The Merchant)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Preface <br class="br"> Sādhanā : The Realisation of Life http://www.spiritualbee.com/spiritual-book-by-tagore/ (1916) <br class="br">Context: The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation. To me the verses of the Upanishads and the teachings of Buddha have ever been things of the spirit, and therefore endowed with boundless vital growth; and I have used them, both in my own life and in my preaching, as being instinct with individual meaning for me, as for others, and awaiting for their confirmation, my own special testimony, which must have its value because of its individuality.
“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”
Joseph Roux (1834–1905) French poet
Part 4, XXVIII (1886)
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
“I think that the best way to gain knowledge is through gaining experience and through connections”
Vangelis (1943) Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music
1979
Context: On theory: "I don’t know any theory. Knowing the theory does not mean anything. If we theoretically know what a human being is, but someone has never seen one, or if you have never had a relationship with a human being, you cannot know anything about human beings! I think that the best way to gain knowledge is through gaining experience and through connections... Look, if I approach an instrument theoretically, it will give me a theory, so therefore this will make cold music".