Olin Miller Quotes

I learned from my past.

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.

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

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

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.

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

In life, if you're not learning from every experience, even the bad ones, you're really messing up. That's the marker of a smart, intelligent individual.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

I have my ignorance to thank for the few things I know.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.