Vivienne Westwood Quotes

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

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

All experience is good experience.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

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 actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

I've learnt from my life experience.

I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.

I have learned from my mistakes and become older.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

I've learned my lessons, but I'm also still learning them.

I learned from my past.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

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.

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

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

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