Eden Phillpotts Quotes

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.

One of the uncertain pleasures of adulthood, for me, has really been about confronting how little I know about the world and how much completely baffles me about the world and human behavior.

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

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

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Only fools need suffer to learn.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.