Earl Wilson Quotes

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

All experience is good experience.

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

I think I've got wiser.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.

Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.

I've learned my lessons, but I'm also still learning them.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.