mistakes on Learning

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

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...

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

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

The prefrontal cortex is responsible for the success of the human species. It enables us to learn from our mistakes and make plans. When the PFC is healthy, we behave consistently in ways that enable ...

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...

Preaching Commentary Pastoral Letters Our text comes early in the pastoral letter of 1 Timothy, right after a brief welcome to the letter’s recipient and an exhortation to fight against the false t...

Pastoral Letters Our text comes early in the pastoral letter of 1 Timothy, right after a brief welcome to the letter’s recipient and an exhortation to fight against the false teachers who have presum...

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is pos...

In her aptly title book, Being Wrong , Kathleen Schulz describes just how difficult it is to be wrong: A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the ti...

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

"A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."

“If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and...

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

I will look at any additional evidence to confirm the opinion to which I have already come.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.