Patricia Briggs Quotes

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I have learned from my mistakes and become older.

Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

As you get old, you live and learn.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

I grow old, ever learning many things.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I learned from my past.

I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

All experience is good experience.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Every experience makes you a man.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.