
“You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“I do feel one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes”
Sunday Times interview (1983)
Source: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 42
“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”
Source: At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends
“Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.”
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.