Jeremy Collier Quotes

Days should speak, and multitudes of years should teach wisdom.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Time as he grows old teaches all 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.

But time growing old teaches all things.

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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

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

I think with experience and age, you gain knowledge and wisdom.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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

Experience is a great teacher.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

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.