Wednesday, December 4, 2019

A Close Observation

To learn from experience can be painful, expensive and time-consuming. The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way. The Greeks derived their theories not from experience but from looking on. The Greek theorein means to look on.--Eric Hoffer in Before the Sabbath
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