Roger Ascham Quotes

When you're young, you make mistakes. But eventually you learn from them.

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

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

We are all human, and mistakes are just around the corner, but experience lets you try to avoid them.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

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.

You live and you learn.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

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

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.