One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect. Mark Twain
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. P. L. Travers
He who speaks a lot learns little. Armenian Proverb
Who is wise? He who learns from all men. Jewish Proverb
A person learns from what happens to them. Bulgarian Proverb