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If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
- Education
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung1875–1961
- Knowledge
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
You’re never beaten until you admit it.
George S. Patton1885–1945
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act III
- Experience
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
- Motivation & Goals
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
J. K. Rowlingborn 1965Harvard address (2008)
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Pieces of Eight (1982)
- Success
(Of Shakespeare) A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922) (243)
- Genius
They never fail who die
In a great cause.
Lord Byron1788–1824Marino Faliero, Act II, Scene 2, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Life & Death
For the robust, an error is information.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 72
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essais (wr. 1571–92; pub. 1580–95), Book I, Ch. 30. Of Cannibals (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)
- Success
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats1795–1821Endymion (1818), Preface
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy.
Marshall McLuhan1911–1980Understanding Media (1964) (p. 154)
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