“It takes a long time to learn to live — by the time you learn your time is gone.”
Paul R. Halmos (1916–2006) American mathematician
Source: I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)
“You live and learn. Or you don't live long.”
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)
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American science fiction author 1907–1988Related quotes
“You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
“Live to learn and you will really learn to live.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CI: On the Futility of Planning Ahead
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
Douglas Adams book Mostly Harmless
Source: Mostly Harmless
Hyman George Rickover (1900–1986) United States admiral
Variations of this quote have been attributed to a number of people, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Samuel Levenson, and Lao Tzu; there is no solid support for any such attribution.
Misattributed
“Until you live, learn how to live.”
Stephen R. Covey book First Things First
First Things First (1994), Disputed
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Cited as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom from the 1940s onwards https://books.google.com/books?id=iNkWAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others.+You+can%27t+live+long+enough+to+make+them+all+yourself%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22make+them+all+yourself%22. Not attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt until 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=ctxi36FCi18C&pg=PA151&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others%22+%22live+long%22+roosevelt&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI_sD5mqDLAhWIKGMKHb8HAZ0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Learn%20from%20the%20mistakes%20of%20others%22%20%22live%20long%22%20roosevelt&f=false. <br class="br">Disputed