R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

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

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

I'm a guy that learns from making mistakes. Sometimes that's not the best way to learn, but that's how I learn.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn't do in international cricket, but that's how you learn.

Sometimes when you make mistakes, if you learn by your mistakes, by golly, that's when you can really go forward.

I've done well over time but made lots of mistakes, too. Learn from your mistakes.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

You learn more when things go wrong.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

The only way to progress is to make mistakes… We are learning the hard way.

Everyone makes mistakes along the way, but we learn from our mistakes.

I always try to improve in every aspect and learn from my errors.