Charlotte Bunch Quotes

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

Let's just start and see what happens.

Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

We will not know unless we begin.

I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.