Susan Powter Quotes

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

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.

All experience is good experience.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity.

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

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

You don't really know much until you get to be 70.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.