Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks…

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because…

— John Dewey

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

— Hesiod

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

— George Clooney

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best…

— Samuel Smiles

To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.

— John Heywood

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because…

— Leo Kottke

A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a bit instructive.

— Olga Tokarczuk

All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and…

— Robert Shea

“Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.”

— Bryant McGill

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

— Giorgio Baglivi

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

— Anonymous

“On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.”

— Chuck Wendig

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche