learning on Error

The point of discourse is to learn with and from one another. I used to tell my students that at least 20 percent of what I was telling them was wrong, but I didn't know which 20 percent it was: I...

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not se...

When people fail, we are inclined to find fault with them, but if you look more closely, you will find that God had some particular truth for them to learn, which the trouble they are in is to teach t...

A stumble may prevent a fall.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

One of the reasons failure can be so crushing is that we set goals of success, instead of improvement and learning.

The point of discourse is to learn with and from one another. I used to tell my students that at least 20 percent of what I was telling them was wrong, but I didn't know which 20 percent it was: I...

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Any fool can learn from his mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R’s only one begins with an R.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Tom Watson, Sr., is the man who founded IBM. You can imagine the money, the investments, the experiments, this man, and his multi-billion dollar company have made through the years. Once, years ago, w...

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

Ancora imparo. Yet I am still learning.

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Experience is overrated. Some people say they have twenty years’ experience, when, in reality, they only have one year’s experience, repeated twenty times.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid aga...

Repetitio mater studiorum est. (Repetition is the mother of learning.)

Suffering is a dreadful teacher but often the beginning of the best in us. Suffering and creativity arc often interdependent. Pain produces a terrible tension released in our creative response. Suffer...

Faith does not grow in spite of suffering, but through suffering, when hope learns to contradict reality.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly t...

At eighteen, a self-assured Benjamin Franklin returned to Boston, the city he had fled just seven months earlier. Dressed in a fine new suit, with a watch on his wrist and a pocket full of coins, he p...

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.