“It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.”– Roger Ascham Related Quotes “My past is my wisdom to use today… my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.”– Gene Oliver “Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”– David Herbert Lawrence “The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.”– William Arthur Ward