Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

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

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

I've learned my lessons, but I'm also still learning them.

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

I learned from my past.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

I try not to be overly analytical.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

You learn from everything.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.