"Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience."
— Bob Packwood

January 1, 1970

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In The New York Times (30 May 1986), reported in Adam Clymer (ed.) The New York Times Year in Review: 1986 (1987) p. 416. A similar quotation is attributed to William Pitkin in the American Nurseryman, vol. 34, no. 1, Rochester, NY (July 1921) p. 3, col. 1: "Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment." Compare: Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued, rev. ed. (1831) vol. 3, ch. 8, p. 159: "Judgment comes from experience, and experience is only gotten by practice