Randy Pausch Quotes

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

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.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

As long as you walk away from any experience, good or bad, with lessons and things you can take into the next experience, I don't think you can do anything but look back on it with an appreciation.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

I learned from my past.

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.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

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

But time growing old teaches all things.

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

Experience is a great teacher.

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

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Everything is a learning experience.

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.