Experience Comes From Bad Judgment?

I remember Peter had a (humorous) phrase he used, often, in the later Tacoma years, anyway…

He would say, “Good judgment comes from experience, and often, experience comes from bad judgment.”, or something like that, and then he completed it, with the syllogistic punchline eluding me!

If you remember Peter using this phrase, PLEASE take the time to tell me? This has confounded me for the last several years. The memory is there, but for whatever reason, I can’t pull it out… I can’t complete the thought.

If only I could just pick up the phone and ask Peter!

Consider this a phone. Consider that I have asked.

It may only be similar to this phrase, but for the record, “Good judgment comes from experience, and often, experience comes from bad judgment.” was attributed to Rita Mae Brown. (I have not personally researched whether this is a correct attribution.)

One Response to “Experience Comes From Bad Judgment?”

  1. Jed

    Coming back to this years later: I don’t know of an explicit syllogism punchline to this saying, but I assume the implicit one is “So good judgment comes from bad judgment,” and I can imagine Peter having explicitly said that.

    Re the source of the phrase: Turns out the first known appearance was an anonymous source in the 1930s.

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