Haven (1951)
“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,” said Grumman. “We have to learn everything we do.”
Stanislaus Grumman to Lee Scoresby in Ch. 14 : Alamo Gulch
Source: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)
“I've learned…. That being kind is more important than being right.”
Source: Live and Learn and Pass It On, Volume II: People Ages 5 to 95 Share What They've Discovered About Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
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.”
“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.
“753. By doing nothing we learne to do ill.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
