Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

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

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

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.

Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

A lot of things in life, you can be told the right way to do it, but you've kind of got to learn by your own mistakes. It's just human nature.

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?

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

There will be a "Oops 100." They'll be plenty more oopses. I'm not perfect. I'm human.

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

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

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

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

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

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.