Hal Borland Quotes

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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

I learned from my past.

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.

All experience is good experience.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

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

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I've learnt from my life experience.

I have learned from my mistakes and become older.

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

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

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.

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

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.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

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.

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

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.