A WISE PERSON LEARNS FROM...
Instructions given by those who are wise (especially God).
Lifestyles of successful people (especially Christians).
Successes by other people (even losers sometimes succeed).
Personal success.
Lifestyles of those who are failures.
Failure by other people (even successful people sometimes fail).
Personal failures.
It is said that "experience is the best teacher." Actually, it is better to learn by being humble, discerning and obedient to wise counsel (especially from God).
SCRIPTURE
LEARNING FROM OTHERS (including God).
Proverbs 1:5
(5) A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Proverbs 9:9
(9) Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE (the good and the bad).
Proverbs 14:8
(8) The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
In the final analysis (concerning sin and salvation), it is either,
Live and learn or die and burn.
