Wisdom & Experience

Purity Centre

The Landscape of my Heart

The Woodward Story

The Bethels of Te Henga

The Scent of Rosewater

Mary Woodward
Family Historian

Actions have reactions, so don't be quick to judge, you may not know the hardships people dont speak of.

Good judgement comes from experience, often, experience comes from bad judgement.
Rita Mae Brown

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't
Pete Seeger

On the humourous side -
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Edward Abbey

Modesty is an acquired responsibility
Chris Skinner

Experience - that most brutal of teachers, but you learn, my god! do you learn!
C.S. Lewis

The more one strives to be like someone else, the less they become themselves
Chris Skinner

judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it
Dalai Lama

Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality
Dalai Lama

Old age trades youth for wisdom

Silence is sometimes the best answer
Dalai Lama

Experience is recognising our mistakes once we have made them

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

My father was a very wise man... He told me so... and you can't argue with facts like that!
Harry Secombe, alias Neddy Seagoon

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vernon Law

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us, he is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Patricia Sampson

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart, the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
Margaret Atwood

"It's not the things you don't know that fool you. It's the things you do know that ain't so"
Josh Billings

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes
Oscar Wilde

Some drink from the fountain of wisdom, others merely gargle.
unknown author.