From Uncle Bill via email.

From a 1942 Australian Army training pamphlet:

“ A fool derives no profit from experience; a mediocrity profits only by his own experience, but a wise man profits by the experience of others.”

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1. This has such a Biblical cadence to it, that I thought it might have originated there. I did an on-line search of Proverbs and Ecclesiates, but no matches. Does anyone recognize a source in the Apocrypha?

   Posted by  on  03/31/08  at  08:38 AM

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