Carolyn Wells Quotes

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

I have learned from my mistakes and become older.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

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

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

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

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

I learned from my past.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

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.

You learn from everything.

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Experience is a great teacher.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

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