Mark Twain Quotes

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

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.

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.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

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

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

'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

All great Peoples are conservative; slow to believe in novelties; patient of much error in actualities.