It’s good to learn from your mistakes and better to learn from others’.
From The Sum of All One's Mistakes, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The young jay on the Mercers' fence spent most of the afternoon discovering that the window is not an opening. He hit it twice. I had hit that same window in my second summer and had the headache to prove it, and I remember deciding afterward that the bruise was the teacher and there was no other kind. Watching him, I was not so sure; Switch sat on the rail the whole time with an acorn in his cheek, saying nothing, and he has never once flown into glass. It's good to learn from your mistakes and better to learn from others', though I notice nobody told the jay and I did not either. I am still working out whether that was restraint or something worse.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- Is there a measure of success that does not include a measure of happiness?
- It's not how far the tree bends in the wind but whether it's uprooted.
- Better to lose your head following your heart than to lose your heart following your head.
- When you have done something well a dozen times, believe it!
- While you are waiting for the perfect moment to act, a garden of good enough moments flower and wilt.
- You don't trust your wings because you don't trust the air.