ProverbWisdomEnglish origin

Those are wise who learn caution from their own experience; but those are wiser who learn it from the experience of others.

Meaning: Benefiting from others' mistakes costs less than accumulating your own painful lessons.

Origin: Recorded in A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, an undated collection published in London by Whittaker & Co. around 1880 and credited to Thomas Preston. Its earlier history hasn't been traced.

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