Sacha Guitry Quotes

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

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.

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.

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

A lot of things in life, you can be told the right way to do it, but you've kind of got to learn by your own mistakes. It's just human nature.

Everyone makes mistakes along the way, but we learn from our mistakes.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

I believe failures are very important in any person's growth. I've learnt what not to do from them.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.