Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

The only way you get to be a “wise man” is to outlive your contemporaries and keep your mouth shut.

lessons must be learned anew by each succeeding generation, and that generation is fortunate indeed which learns from other than its own bitter experience.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

With the ancient [person] is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it.

We all get motivated differently and I think as you get older, you'd be foolish not to draw on your experiences from the past.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

I can pass on a lot of information. I'm just never going to be the 21-year-old Penny Hardaway again.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

The older you get, the more you know about certain things.

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

As you get old, you live and learn.

Yeeres know more then bookes.

But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.