Lou Henry Hoover Quotes

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

All experience is good experience.

There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

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

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

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.