Francis Bacon Quotes

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

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

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Part of being young is making mistakes.

Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven, and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it.

There are a lot of benefits to having a team of young people, but there are many benefits to having people who've made a lot of mistakes.

I was young at Inter and did things I wouldn't do again.

Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

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

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

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

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

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

Making mistakes is how you learn.