Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Terry Pratchett
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Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Wisdom is gained through experience; experience is gained through wisdom. We can gain wisdom by trying something and having it not work, and then getting back up and trying again.

We can also lose our way and end up looking foolish by acting like we know what we’re doing. And we can realize that we don't know what we're doing or why we're doing it and give up, or we can learn from our mistakes and keep going.

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