Good judgment depends mostly on experience, and experience comes mostly from poor judgment.
— attributed to Will Rogers and many others, including the ever-prolific Anonymous
See https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/23/judgment/
Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The scientific theory I like the best is that maybe Saturn's rings are made up entirely of lost luggage.
— from a crossword puzzle, Toronto Star, Sept.30 2001
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with wondering if you turned off the iron.
— William Rotsler (1926-97)