Mistakes are often the best teachers.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Never too late to learn.
- Practice makes perfect.
- Experience is the best teacher.
- Spare the rod and spoil the child.
- Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
- Better to ask the way than go astray.
- Many things are lost for want of asking.
- Never offer to teach fish to swim.
- No man is born Wise or learned.
- They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat.
- What youth is used to, age remembers.
- The young pig grunts like the old sow.
- Children when they are little make parents fools, when they are great they make them mad.
- Better children weep than old men.
- One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father.
- The man who has not been flogged is not educated.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
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Adversity makes a man Wise, not rich.
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Failure teaches success.
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
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Felix, quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum.
Happy, he who makes them wary of the dangers of others.
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Quae nocent, docent.
What harms, teaches.
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Malo accepto stultus sapit.
A fool is wise when he receives evil.
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Errando discitur.
One learns by making mistakes.
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Piscator ictus sapiet.
The fisherman will know the shot.
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Per damnum plures effecti sunt sapientes.
By loss many have been made wise.
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Peccare bis idipsum haud sapientis est viri.
It is not wise for a man to sin twice.
French
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Dommage rend sage.
Dommage makes wise.
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On apprend à vivre à ses dépens.
You learn to live at your own expense.
German
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Durch Schaden wird man klug.
Through harm one becomes wise.
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Durch Schaden wird man klug, aber selten reich.
Harm makes you smart, but rarely makes you rich.
Czech
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Neštěstí, bídy, příhody — dobrého často původy.
Misfortunes, misfortunes, accidents - good things often originate.
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Co k škodě bylo, to přiučilo.
What harm has been done has been learned.
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Co škodí, to učí.
What harms, teaches.
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Škoda i hloupému někdy oči otvírá.
Pity opens the eyes of the stupid sometimes.
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Koho rozum nevede, toho škoda povede.
Whom reason does not lead, pity will lead.
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Škoda vtipu dodává.
Pity the joke adds.