Experience Mistakes Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go. — Anthony Horowitz

We learn from failure, not from success! — Bram Stoker

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden. — Ralph Marston

Make mistakes often without remorse or fear. You will gain experience and will be a winner. — Debasish Mridha

Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the time of dying comes, you can say: I lived well I do not need to live again. Most of us die wishing we could live again. So many mistakes committed, so much left undone. Most of the people vegetate, but do not live. They merely gather experience and enrich their memory. But experience is the denial of Reality, which is neither sensory nor conceptual, neither of the body, nor of the mind, though it includes and transcends both. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If experience is life's best teacher then why do we have to learn by example? — Terry Blakeman

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes. — Sophia Amoruso

A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of. — Jack Kerouac

Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength. — John Newton

Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate. — Jess C. Scott

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. — Oscar Wilde

The more mistakes I make, the less I judge other people's mistakes — Bayan Bahi

Accept yourself for the person you are, for all the mistakes you did and also for the transformation you're about to experience in the future. Love your future version from this moment. — Lidiya K.

Two things happen when you get to be old. One, you gather experience and knowledge. You learn from your mistakes, and thereby offer wisdom to others. The second thing that happens is that you grow forgetful, ornery and senile, and when you offer advice, well, you sometimes just don't know what you're talking about. Often it's hard for everyone-including me-to know the difference. — Camron Wright

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life ... the only college where everyone is a permanent student. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey

We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two.
I think maybe we learn a few things each time that we don't forget. A few things that stick with us. It's just hard to pass those things on to those who come after us because if they didn't live through it, they don't view it the same way we do. If you don't experience something firsthand, it's a lot harder to accept. Terry Brooks, Bearers of the Black Staff, p 89 — Terry Brooks

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them — Harold J. Smith

Explore, Experiment, Evolve. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People say there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others. — John C. Maxwell

Every experience lays the foundation for the ultimate success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known. — Osho

Sometimes you may think you're doing the right thing, but it turns out to be the wrong thing. And you just have to live with it. If I'd known what I know now when I was young, I could have done a lot more right, but I didn't. That's the way life is: you figure it out right before you die. — K. Martin Beckner

There is neither mistake nor failures. It is only experience. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Tragedy plus time equals humor — Marie Osmond

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives. — Adrian Grenier

As a human being, we are on a continuous journey of self-discovery and experience. — Miranda J. Barrett

Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly; without first having to lose one's life. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life. — Michael A. Singer