Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.

I think like a detective.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

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

It's always a learning experience every time I'm on set.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

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

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven, and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it.

You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.

When you don't understand something, it's always OK to ask questions. That's really the mentality that I've had.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I always think there's something you can learn.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.