Quotes About Growth

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Unfortunately for me, I was one of these people who took a long time to learn that the material at his feet was fine.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

People make mistakes and I've probably made a few more than others, but unfortunately mine are also a bit more public. That's the way it is. You've just got to get on with life. After all, it's not a rehearsal.

I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

If I were younger, I'd know more.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.

Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn