Mistakes are portals of discovery…
- Mistakes are doorways to discovery. Sam Horn
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce
- A man’s errors are his portals of discovery. James Joyce
- From error to error one discovers the entire truth. Sigmund Freud
- He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
- Mistakes aren’t fatal; they are merely the portals of discovery. Josh Linkner
- Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth. Benjamin Wiker
- I’m still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries. Fernando Araujo Perdomo
- All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors. Marshall McLuhan
- A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce
- The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I’ll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. Chuck Palahniuk
- We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another’s success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve. Arthur Quiller-Couch
- We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
- Children, then, acquire social skills not so much from adults as from their interactions with one another. They are likely to discover through trial and error which strategies work and which do not, and later to reflect consciously on what they have learned. Zick Rubin
- Some of the best inventive moments are born out of ‘wrong thinking’. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure. James Dyson
- Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by pursuing chimerical problems and theories which are false. In physical science, which is more advanced than biology, we might still cite men of science who make great discoveries by relying on false theories. Claude Bernard
- Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities. Benjamin Franklin
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…and so is failure
- The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures. Humphry Davy
- Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. John Keats
- It means that we should celebrate today’s failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. Jacqueline Kelly
- We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
- The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all. Brennan Manning
