Tryon Edwards Quotes

I learned from my past.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

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

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

It is not easy for me to accept criticism and reassess my way of doing things.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

With years, you change. You're not as hardheaded or stubborn. You are more malleable.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.