Quotes About Learning

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account.

From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead.

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.

Failure ... is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits; on his manhood; he has gained the facts; learned his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

People fail forward to success.

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.