William James Quotes

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

The only way you learn is by failure.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.

You make mistakes and you learn from them.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

You always learn something from mistakes.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.

Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven, and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it.