Ani DiFranco Quotes

Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

I think that no matter how old you get, you are always learning about yourself.

You can learn a lot if you become a student of what's happening to you.

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

I learned from my past.

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

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.

You learn from everything.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.