Quotes about Progress through Mistakes

Alexander McQueen

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

Paulo Coelho

Making mistakes is a way of taking action.

Jules Verne

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Science has the interesting characteristic that most failures are successes in the sense that scientific knowledge is gained from the failure even if it only a guide to what not to do in the future. Politics would be well served to adopt this pragmatic approach, but ideology usually prevails in politics and errors tend to be repeated if there are supported by political philosophy or ideology.

Jonas Salk

Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

Jack Canfield

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

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.

Progress through Mistakes Quotes