Melody Beattie Quotes

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

I think perspective is a necessary, amazing thing.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

You can observe a lot by watching.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

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

Experience is the cane of the blind.

Reality is an acquired taste.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.