Donald Trump Quotes

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

Learn from the experts; you will not live long enough to figure it all out by yourself.

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

I'm sure that like anybody else, I'm probably the sum total of my life experiences. If I'm smart and I've gained any wisdom, I have learned something from each of those experiences including different jobs I've taken throughout my life. The problem is, sometimes you don't realize you've learned something until maybe years later.

It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

Always try to learn from other people's mistakes, not your own- it is much cheaper that way!

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Well, it's my age group, anywhere from, I'd say 30 to 70. The biggest comment I get about the book is how honest it is and that people can relate to my circumstances going across the line. Anybody could learn and deal with this book from reading it.

So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal.” “What’s that?” “The truth.

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."