Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.

I'm a big expert in boxing, but in politics I'm a beginner, so I try to use other people's experience. I read books; I'm not afraid to ask for advice.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

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

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

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

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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.

Tell me, O wise man, how hast thou come to know so astonishingly much? By never being ashamed to ask of those that knew!

I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

I'd be a liar if I didn't say I learned things from Jeezy. Hell yeah, I took some things, some pluses and some minuses, do's and don'ts.

I think we should learn from our mistakes.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

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

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

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

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

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.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.