"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.“

-Joseph Roux

posted in Experience

Joseph Roux quote on Experience: "Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained." - Aesthetic Wallpaper & Wisdom

Other Quotes by Joseph Roux

Discover more inspiring quotes by Joseph Roux

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

-Joseph Roux

PeaceView Quote

"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."

-Joseph Roux

HappinessView Quote

"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired."

-Joseph Roux

WisdomView Quote

"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."

-Joseph Roux

WisdomView Quote

"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."

-Joseph Roux

ScienceView Quote

"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."

-Joseph Roux

PoetryView Quote

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

-Soren Kierkegaard

ExperienceView Quote

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

-Khalil Gibran

ExperienceView Quote

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

-Emily Dickinson

ExperienceView Quote

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't."

-Pete Seeger

ExperienceView Quote

"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."

-Bill Watterson

ExperienceView Quote

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

-George Washington

ExperienceView Quote