Stephen Fry Quotes

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.

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

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

I learned from my past.

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

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

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

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

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

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.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

I wouldn't say I regret anything. I would say I just wish I did things better.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

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.

Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.

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

You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

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

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.