“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
“While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Only the foolish learn from experience - the wise learn from the experience of others.”
Nur der Dumme lernt aus Erfahrung, der Kluge aus der Erfahrung der anderen!
Alan Turing
Nelson Mandela on character, Foreign Correspondent's Association's Annual Dinner, Johannesburg, South Africa (21 November 1997). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes
1990s
Source: Soul Curry for You and Me: An Empowering Philosophy that Can Enrich Your Life, P. 27.
Book V, Chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: The idea of being constructive, creative, positive, in trying to bring out the best in one's own self and the best in others follows from what I've just been saying. Again, I repeat my belief in us, in ourselves, as the product of the process of evolution, and part of the process itself. I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience. It's the need to dedicate one's self in that way, to one's own self, and to choose an activity or life that is of value not only to yourself but to others as well.
