“Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.”

Source: Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000

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