“Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.”
“The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.”
“It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.”
“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”
“Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”
“Some of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the success and wisdom of the future.”