Neal Shusterman Quotes

There are things to be learned even from the dead.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

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.

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.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are preserved by quotations.

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

Experience can be a great teacher.

Life is the greatest teacher.

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Wisdom comes with winters

I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

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.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

Everything is a learning experience.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

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