“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,” said Grumman. “We have to learn everything we do.”
Philip Pullman book The Subtle Knife
Stanislaus Grumman to Lee Scoresby in Ch. 14 : Alamo Gulch
Source: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)
“We learn nothing by being right.”
Haven (1951)
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“I've learned…. That being kind is more important than being right.”
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Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 42
“We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.”
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
“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.
“753. By doing nothing we learne to do ill.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)