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Wisdom Experience Quotes

The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus

The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.

Andrew Carnegie
Men, Wisdom Experience, Community

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Terry Pratchett
Life, Wisdom Experience, Wisdom And Experience

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Inspirational, Business, Wisdom Experience
1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

Richard Schmid
Art, Children, Wisdom Experience

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

Mark Twain
Life, Wisdom Experience, Knowledge Experience
Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

William Saroyan
Congratulations, Wisdom Experience, Sobriety
"My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, 1939.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

William S. Burroughs
Thinking, Wisdom Experience, Finals
"Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs".

There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.

Alexander Hamilton
Wisdom Experience, Public Opinion, Oracles

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