"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."
― Edith Wharton
Topic(s):
Experience
― Edith Wharton
More From Edith Wharton
- "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- "There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny."
- "If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time."
More In Experience
- "‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."― William James
- "You don’t have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts."― Erin Morgenstern
- "Everybody’s entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people."― Amy Grant