H. L. Mencken Quotes

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

I learn from experience.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

I learned a lot in my life by paying attention and listening to how people around me worked.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

I learned from my past.

I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

You can observe a lot by watching.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

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

You learn from everything.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

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

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.