Gabriel Iglesias Quotes

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I'm still growing, still learning. I'm still open and vulnerable enough to know there's much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don't reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

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

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

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

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

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.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

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.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.