Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

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

I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.

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.

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

We can learn from everybody.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.