
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
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.
Disputed
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
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
“Learn from the mistakes of others you won't have time to make them all your self”
Source: Simply Irresistible
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 175
“We all learn to make mistakes
and run from them.”
Misguided Ghosts (2009)
Lyrics
About democracy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dV7N-QGV_w (Retrieved on July 20, 2010.)
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