Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

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.

When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

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

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

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

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.