Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

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

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.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

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.

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.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.

Experience can be a great teacher.

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.

There were mistakes that I made that I did learn from. When you don't have responsibilities, the only responsibility is for yourself, but when you have someone there to mentor you, then you don't make stupid mistakes.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

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.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

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

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.