Learning from mistakes

[Tom Lewis]

Hi

I'm looking for a quotation which shows how me can learn from mistakes
to avoid making them again in the future and that experience is
valuable.

Any Ideas?

Many Thanks

--
Tom Lewis

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[Mark Thakkar]

> I'm looking for a quotation which shows how me can learn from mistakes
> to avoid making them again in the future and that experience is
> valuable.

"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes."
(Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan")

;-)

Mark.

[drg]

Tom Lewis wrote:
>
> Hi

>
> I'm looking for a quotation which shows how me can learn from mistakes
> to avoid making them again in the future and that experience is
> valuable.
>

> Any Ideas?
>
> Many Thanks
>
> --
> Tom Lewis
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.

Perhaps some of these --

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius,
Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc.
They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.
---Lord Acton

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
---Bishop W.C. Magee

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and
mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
---Plutarch

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, *repeated*
failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you
don't want to fail is the last time you try something. . . . . One fails
forward toward success.
---Charles F. Kettering

The great virtue of man lies in this ability to correct his mistakes and to
continually make a new man of himself.
---Wang Yang-Ming

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor
judgment.
---Unattributed

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
---Hugh Prather

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to
something better.
---Wendell Phillips

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
---Auguste Rodin

Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and
failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead.
---Edith Johnson

Learn from the mistakes of others -- You can't live long enough to make
them all yourself.
---Martin Vanbee

Debbie

[Marci Wolcott]

"We are all failures -at least, all the best of us are." -J.M. Barrie

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
  -Samuel Beckett

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."
-William Saroyan

and from the Duke:

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at
midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself into
our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." -John
Wayne

I hope you read that last one with a swagger and a smile!
-Marci

[Walter Fisher]

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns
most. EPICURUS, Vatican Sayings

--
Walter
dum vivimus, vivamus! (Horace)
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[Marci Wolcott]

"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
--Goethe

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were
failures. So I did ten times more work." - G.B. Shaw

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." --Henry
Ford
-Marci