Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

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.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

Each film has taught me something new - be it about myself, my craft, my profession, people.

We can learn from everybody, man.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

We read books to find out who we are.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

We teach what we need to learn.

I learned from my past.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.