Jon Stewart Quotes

I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.

School is a foretaste of life.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

When I think back on it, it's amazing what happens to us as we move out into the world.

I needed to go to college. I needed to mature.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.

Life’s like that. As we grow and change, some things we’ve experience before take on new meaning. It’ll happen for the rest of your life.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.