“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
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American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer 1859–1952Related quotes
“You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.”
Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.”
Gordon Ramsay (1966) British chef, writer and TV presenter
“When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.”
Satya Nadella (1967) CEO of Microsoft appointed on 4 February 2014
Boy Genius Report: "When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella" https://www.bgr.in/news/when-i-think-about-my-career-my-successes-are-built-on-learning-from-failures-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella/ (29 December 2015)
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
As quoted in The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell (2003) by Oren Harari, p. 164.
2000s
“Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.”
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Kenneth Boulding (1971) "The diminishing returns of science" in: New Scientist. (March 25, 1971) Vol. 49, nr. 744. p. 682
1970s
Context: Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”
Hesiod Greek poet
Source: Works and Days and Theogony