Wisdom Gained Quotes

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

I think there's a lesson in everything.

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

I think I've grown and learned a lot.

It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've transformed into these different people. We like to think that. I feel in some ways that I am still so much my younger self. There are ways that I'm different: I feel like I'm wiser and kinder. But I think a lot of the impulses are still the same. I learned that.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

With age, you become more humble, more wise.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

Ageing might have its drawbacks but it brings with it hard-won wisdom and a wonderful sense of freedom.

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

Don't think this has taught me a lesson !

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

The reward of suffering is experience.