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Topic·Learning from mistakes✕clear
Age of Enlightenment2 quotes
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. — Edmund Burke · 1796A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. — Alexander Pope · 1727
Colonial America2 quotes
Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn In no other. — Benjamin Franklin · 1743To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish. — Benjamin Franklin · 1742
Classical antiquity1 quote
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus · 458 BC
Early Christianity1 quote
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. — St. Jerome · 394