A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man…

“A wise person learns from the mistakes of others, a normal person learns from their own, and a fool learns nothing, ever.”

— Robert J. Crane

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

— Otto von Bismarck

“The difference between a wise man and a fool is a wise man learns his lessons from other people’s mistakes and a fool only…

— Duane Chapman

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man,…

— Ann Radcliffe

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.

— Kane Arreo

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

— Edward Abbey

“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or even lived in a way which…

— Alain de Botton

“I've heard two ways of looking at it. One says the silent man is the wise man & the other that a man without…

— John Steinbeck

“Though a man be wise and intelligent, he is a fool in the eyes of the ignorant.”

— Saadi

A wise man learns from other people's mistake but a fool learns from his own mistake.

— Daniel Masha

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

— Anonymous

The fool learns by suffering.

— Hesiod

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

— Homer

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

— Carl Jung

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher