Ray Lyman Wilbur Quotes

Always try to learn from other people's mistakes, not your own- it is much cheaper that way!

We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.

I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would not have to undergo them for herself. But, how are our certainties forged, except by the sweat and tears of other people? If your parents don't teach you how to live; you learn it from books; and clever people watch you learn from your mistakes.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life.

[Meryl Streep] just sent me an email, and I was like, "That's perfect." She was like, "Yes, Viola, now that you've just had your vow renewal...this is the best part of your life now. There's not anything that you don't know anymore in terms of what's good and bad out there, so now you can just fly." She's always imparting wisdom like that.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.