George W. Bush Quotes

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

hindsight is not a strategy.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Foreknowledge is power.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

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

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.

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

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

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

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Fully consider the future and the immediate results of all undertakings, and the good and bad sides of all past actions.

You don’t make decisions in hindsight; you make them in the present. You live and learn.

Any plan is better than no plan.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

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.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic.