Accumulated Knowledge Quotes

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

Everything I do has been a lifetime in the making.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. I don't want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.

Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

The older you get, the more you've done.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

… ideas are structures built over time, each part added by a new generation.