James_Miller comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 22 October 2009 05:33:12PM 31 points [-]

You want to learn from experience, but you want to learn from other people’s experience when you can.

Warren Buffett

Comment author: childofbaud 25 October 2009 11:03:22PM *  8 points [-]

On a similar note, but from a different author:

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

—Socrates

Comment author: gwern 19 December 2010 11:03:54PM *  1 point [-]

<ChrisBradley> Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. -[[Socrates]]

<silsor> ChrisBradley, that could be rewritten for us - Employ your time in improving other men's writings.

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