Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.

Experience is a safe guide.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

Only fools need suffer to learn.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.

It's so important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you, and I don't think I would be where I am today, both professionally and personally, without each and every mentor who helped me along the way.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

I wish there were people when I was young that I had a respect for and looked up to that I could have been guided by. I didn't have that, and I really do wish I did because I think I would've learned a lot more.

I'd be a liar if I didn't say I learned things from Jeezy. Hell yeah, I took some things, some pluses and some minuses, do's and don'ts.

I learned so much from Ric Flair... just listening to him guide me early in my career.

There are things to learn from people who have already done what you're trying to do.

When you get a bit older, you gain more experience, and you try to put it to good use, to help yourself in different ways and also the young players.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Experience makes us wise.