Louisa May Alcott Quotes

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.

We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the majority of the world, that's not the case. In many parts of the world, women and poor people are at a huge disadvantage - certain rights and protections don't exist, and they don't have the chance of upward mobility.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.