Who is wiser - he who has experienced it himself, or he who learns from one who has experienced it before?

Answer 1

Until "he who learns" becomes "he who has experienced", he (who learns) will also be "he who doubts".

The ego of humanity is such that we disregard the experience of others as something that will never happen to us. Personal experience is our only certainty.

Answer 2

neither - because the one that has been through it - will probably go through it again ( pattern ) even if he/she is not in the same situation - it may be something similar - and while they give all this advice to the newcomer - they dont follow their own ( but who does ) and then the one who learns from that person who experienced it - probable wont listen because we already know - when our parents or someone older says ive been there - we dont listen we wait until were older to try and tell the new generation coming up what it is - and we think - dang this is what he/she was talking to me about -

maybe the one who has gone through it is wiser - if he can avoid being a pattern -

Answer 3

He who has experienced is wiser, since it is he who teaches. One can learn many things but until you put that knowledge to the test, which is experience, you will never know if you have learned anything at all.

Answer 4

Wisdom is knowledge gained from experience.

Knowledge, true knowledge ,IS experience. It follows that some one who does not know cannot (come to) know just by listening to one who knows. What he 'learns' is that knowledge can be attained, but only through experiencing it oneself.

But this learning is not the knowing itself. For that, the experiencing has to be undergone by oneself.

(Consider the statement: 'Both Edmund Hillary and myself know that it is cold at the summit of mount Everest'. He has been there, he knows what it is like to be there, he KNOWS it because he has experienced it. I have only read about it in the books, I learned it - learned OF it - in the books. You may say - even though I myself think even this is too much - that I know ABOUT the fact; Hillary KNOWS the fact.)

Answer 5

He who learns from the one who has experienced it before!

Answer 6

No one can learn it all through own experience alone. Therefore there is no alternative to learning from others' experience..... however, wise is he who can take others' experience with a pinch of salt so as to ensure he remains flexible to adapt to current circumstances as necessary... no past experience remains valid as such for all times since times keep changing all the time.

Answer 7

It has nothing to do with how wise they are. It doesn't depend on what they expearienced, it depends on what they do with that expearience. If an idiot expeariences it, it doesnt guarenty that they will be wise. Same for the person who learns. It is the wisdom the person already has, not the kind of expearience that influences wisdom.

Answer 8

having first hand (hands-on) knowledge on any subject is always the best teacher.
For example : (hypothetical, of course.....)
If someone tells you .... Man, I just jumped out of a plane buck naked with only a parachute on !!!
I was "hard" for 5 days straight.
> of course, this is HYPOTHETICAL - KIDS DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME <

Are you really going to believe this person and throw caution & your clothes to the 4 winds, & go jump out of a plane buck naked with only a parachute ???
Some might !! :P
I think I better stop here. lol.

Answer 9

He who has experienced it himself.

Answer 10

he who learns from the experiences of other people. as my dad always says life is too short to learn from ones own experiences. thank you dad.