Mark Twain Quotes

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

With age comes wisdom.

I think we should learn from our mistakes.

You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.

Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Wisdom comes with winters

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.