
“We are all fools sometimes, child, yet a wise woman learns to limit how often.”
Lelaine Akashi to Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 85
“We are all fools sometimes, child, yet a wise woman learns to limit how often.”
Lelaine Akashi to Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 October 1994)
“We do not learn this only from the event, which is the master of fools.”
Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome
[Kopan, Tal, Black senators eye future generation, https://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/black-senators-meeting-tim-scott-103928, 21 August 2018, Politico, February 26, 2014]
2014
Source: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian
“What matters most is that we learn from living.”
As quoted in Permission to Play : Taking Time to Renew Your Smile (2003) by Jill Murphy Long, p. 147
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”
Plutarch's Life of Cato
Variant: Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.