Quotes About Learning

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

You can beat the Bear once, but never the same way twice.

I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you.

Failure is an event, never a person.

If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.

A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.

Man must strive, and in striving, he must err.

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.

Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.