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百胜难虑敌，三折乃良医

Traditional form:

百勝難慮敵，三折乃良醫

Pinyin (reading):

bǎishèngnánlüdí,sānzhénǎiliángyī

Definitions:

  • (a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫／刘禹锡 ( Liú Yǔxī)) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor
  • (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes

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