Erica Jong Quotes

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I have my ignorance to thank for the few things I know.

Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

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

Only fools need suffer to learn.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

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

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.