Demetri Martin Quotes

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

You learn from everything.

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.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

Let's just say I've learned a lot and seen things differently than any other average high school kid.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

I believe there is a lesson in everything that you do.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.