Billy Wilder Quotes

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

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

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

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

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The best vision is insight.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.