What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
I think I've got wiser.
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.
It's like when your parents tell you what to do, but it's not until you go through it yourself that you see why they said what they said. Sometimes you just have to go through things in life to become a better person.
