Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

But time growing old teaches all things.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The older you get, the more you learn.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

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

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.