Nancy Gibbs Quotes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Making mistakes is how we learn.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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.

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

Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.

In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

You make mistakes and you learn from them.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

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

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.