Eliza Cook Quotes

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.

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.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

The longer you live, the smarter you get because you've been around. You've seen things. You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.

I've learnt from my life experience.

Everyone makes mistakes along the way, but we learn from our mistakes.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

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

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.