Edward Everett Hale Quotes

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

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

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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

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

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

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.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

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

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

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.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.