Ellen Goodman Quotes

Every experience, good or bad, is a learning process.

All experience is good experience.

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.

Every experience makes you a man.

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.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

You gotta learn a lesson as you go through life.

Every person learns with time and experience.

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

You learn from everything.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Experience is a great teacher.

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

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

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

Everything is a learning experience.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

I think you get better as you get older.

Wisdom begins at the end.