Diane Duane Quotes

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

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

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

You gotta learn a lesson as you go through life.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

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

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

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.

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

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

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

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

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

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

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.