Cato the Elder Quotes

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

All experience is good experience.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

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

Pain is the root of knowledge.

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

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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.

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

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

You learn from everything.

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.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.