Edmund Burke Quotes

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

But time growing old teaches all things.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

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.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

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

Days should speak, and multitudes of years should teach wisdom.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Time is the school in which we learn.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.