Ray Bradbury Quotes

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

There are two things people in public life don’t like to say. First is ‘I made a mistake’, and second is ‘I don’t know.’

Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.

The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

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

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?