Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

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.

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.

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.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

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

Life is the greatest teacher.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

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

There's truths you have to grow into.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

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

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

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

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

All experience is good experience.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.