R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

I don't get everything right the first time.

The more mistakes you make, the more you learn.

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.