Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
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ERIC HOFFER There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
JOSH BILLINGS There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living...
PAUL KALANITHI Smart is what you learn from others.
Wise is what you learn from yourself.
SANDRA SWARTZ Wise men are instructed in reason;
Men of less understanding by experience;
The most unknowing...
SOURCE UNKNOWN No, a fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others.
OTTO VON BISMARCK The wise learn from their own mistakes, the smart from others mistake, but the great learn from othe...
DR. LUCAS D. SHALLUA The wise can learn from the foolish as the foolish can learn from the wise
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their...
ALDOUS HUXLEY From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what thei...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I do not want to learn things that is made by others i want others to learn things that is made by m...
BHAVYA GUPTA After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell...
EMMA WATSON Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
AESOP Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
AESOP Anyone young can learn something useful from someone with experience.
AL CAPP Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as lon...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ar...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others
TIBETAN PROVERB We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true fo...
VIOLA SPOLIN There are things you can't learn by books, you just have to experience youself
ITACH UCHIHA But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone ca...
EMMA WATSON As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written b...
MAX HEINDEL By others faults the wise correct their own.
PROVERB Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or mo...
THOMAS HOBBES Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more...
THOMAS HOBBES Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational inst...
AL CAPP Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational inst...
AL CAPP Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
ISAAC DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by n...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
M. SHAWN COLE You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
M. SHAWN COLE There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; ...
MARTIN GARDNER Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE When the cost is too high, you don't want to learn by experience alone.
DAVID RAKISON Experience results in most enduring lesson. When one commits mistake & if he is wise enough to learn...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and ...
GAMALIEL BRADFORD The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times h...
BERTRAND RUSSELL We begin to learn wisely when we're willing
to see world from other people's perspective.
TOBA BETA The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brute...
CICERO How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no 'normal' - it is a...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Girl Scouts is a learning experience. We're trying to show the girls that they should learn to do fo...
JANICE JENSEN Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brut...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Things that I could get done, I do not entrust to others; I do them myself, so that they may learn s...
ATHARVA VEDA We start as fools and become wise through experience
AFRICAN PROVERB There is no experience from which you can't learn something.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's pro...
WILLIAM FEATHER It is wise to learn from the great sacred-souls.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received b...
CHANAKYA There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force t...
WOODROW WILSON We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB If everyone is wise as almost all consider or show themselves to be through their attitude towards a...
ANUJ SOMANY Anyone who wants to learn how to use this equipment is more than welcome to come by.
GARY ROOT When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA But I have come to learn there is no peace while others suffer.
LILY BLAKE Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn.
RALPH BANKS A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own ...
HIPPOCRATES When he's on, he is as good as anyone we've had. Technique-wise, he's as explosive a wrestler as we'...
ALLEN HUGHES We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
PETER DE VRIES There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by forc...
WOODROW T. WILSON One does not learn how to die by killing others.
VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI It’s natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to va...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA Never give up in life. Learn to be humble, resilient, honest, wise and submissive and you'll be able...
AULIQ ICE We don't need as much experience race-wise because most of us are seniors.
BRIAN DENNIS It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.
JOHN SAXE It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create
JOHN GODFREY SAXE Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful...
SENECA The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's...
WILLIAM FEATHER The wise shall learn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at ...
EVELYN GLENNIE There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so...
WOODROW WILSON There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so ...
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