Steven Wright Quotes

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

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from 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.

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.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.

Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience can be a great teacher.

Everyone makes mistakes along the way, but we learn from our mistakes.

In life, we always make the right decisions the second time around, you know?

Hindsight does always serve the purpose of putting you in the right, and if you don't have it, you find yourself very often in the wrong.

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

I learned from my past.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.