Learning

A quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

English translation: Constance Garnett

From the source

Crime and Punishment, Part III, Chapter I.

English translation by Constance Garnett. Historical translation reproduced in the linked source.

Razumihin’s enthusiastic argument about learning through error.