T. S. Eliot Quotes

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

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.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.