Barry McCaffrey Quotes

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

You learn that you can't take what's happened in the previous years for granted.

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

Spend more time in daily reflection, contemplation and meditation. Had I done that at 20, things would have been very different in my life. But things really were as they needed to be, because I had to learn ... how important it was.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

I've done a lot of growing up and realized a lot of things.

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.