Tim Bray Quotes

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

It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's 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.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

You don't get old being stupid.

If you want to take what I've learned and use it to your advantage, just listen and you won't have to go through it.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

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

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

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

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

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

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

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Mistakes are lessons that you need to learn!

Only fools need suffer to learn.

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.