Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

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

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.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

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

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

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

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

You learn from everything.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

All experience is good experience.

But time growing old teaches all things.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Experience is a great teacher.

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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

Everything is a learning experience.

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.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

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

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.