Learning can only be through experience. Words of others, no matter how wise, mean nothing, if one did not pay the price for that knowledge. After all, whatever that can be gotten for free, is surely worthless, or has less worth than something you had to pay for. Advice is taken as scornful patronization. That, is human nature.
"We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." ~ Michel de Montaigne
So its been said, and so it is.
Some other interesting quotes, which i put here for reasons of my own....
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for
the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling." - Robert M. Pirsig
"Familiarity breeds contempt:
The end is easily foretold,
When ev'ry blessed thing you hold
Is made of silver, or of gold,
You long for simple pewter.
When you have nothing else to wear
But cloth of gold and satins rare,
For cloth of gold you cease to care
Up goes the price of shoddy." -Gilbert & Sullivan, The
Gondoliers
"Only in the darkness can you see the stars." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
And, on another note....
"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked." ~Erich Segal
Have a good night.
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