Felix Frankfurter Quotes

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

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.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

All experience is good experience.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

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

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

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Early convictions must give way to more mature ones.

It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts.

Without knowledge we cannot act; with it we can and will.

We have changed because we have learned.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.