Holbrook Jackson Quotes

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

As you get old, you live and learn.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

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

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Experience is a great teacher.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I have learned from my mistakes and become older.

In most cases, a year older is a good thing. More wisdom, more experience, and less damns given.

You gotta learn a lesson as you go through life.

I think with experience and age, you gain knowledge and wisdom.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.