Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.
Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.
When you're starting out, say yes to everything you can.
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.
A man learns with age, if he is lucky.
As you get old, you live and learn.
You can't change what you don't understand.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.
When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.
I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?
It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation.
No man ever became wise by chance.
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]
I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street
No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.
The more information you have, the better you will be.
