“He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.”

Mercator, Act IV, scene 7, line 40
Mercator (The Merchant)

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Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period -254–-184 BC

Joseph Roux (1834–1905) French poet

Part 4, XXVIII (1886)
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

“Reflect, ye gentle dames, that much they know,
Who gain experience from another's woe.”

Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso

Canto X, stanza 6 (tr. J. Hoole)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

“Reflect, ye gentle dames, that much they know,
Who gain experience from another's woe.”

John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator

Book X, line 32
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)

“I think that the best way to gain knowledge is through gaining experience and through connections”

Vangelis (1943) Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music

1979
Context: On theory: "I don’t know any theory. Knowing the theory does not mean anything. If we theoretically know what a human being is, but someone has never seen one, or if you have never had a relationship with a human being, you cannot know anything about human beings! I think that the best way to gain knowledge is through gaining experience and through connections... Look, if I approach an instrument theoretically, it will give me a theory, so therefore this will make cold music".

“No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.”

Charles A. Reich book The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XII : The Greening Of America, p. 383 ( See also: Vilfredo Pareto)