Terry Pratchett Quotes

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Experience can be a great teacher.

Everyone makes mistakes along the way, but we learn from our mistakes.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

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

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

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

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.

I learned from my past.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

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

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Experience is a great teacher.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

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

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

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

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