A Quote by Aldous Huxley
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question.
To me, as a keeper, you don't learn anything from sitting in the stands collecting a paycheck. You don't learn from eating the organic lunches at the buffet, you know what I mean? You can only learn from experience.
While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.
Strangest thing is, you learn the value of experience only with experience
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.
Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.
Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.
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