R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

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

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

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.

It's about the learning, because obviously I learn more when I fail than when I win.

I think I have a lot of learning to do, but that's what the game is for.

Every person learns with time and experience.

Failure teaches you a lot more than success.

I believe failures are very important in any person's growth. I've learnt what not to do from them.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

Everytime you fall down or take the wrong path, it isn't wasted. You will surely develop and grow over time.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.