Oscar WildeSourced
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan, Act III (1892)
Checked quotes about failure
1 quotes with a known source.
Famous, but not theirs
Quotes about failure that are usually credited to the wrong person.
Winston ChurchillNot theirs
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Actually: Quote Investigator found the earliest close version in a 1938 Budweiser advertisement.
Thomas EdisonMisquoted
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
The real words: A modern version. His biographers Dyer and Martin (1910) report him saying: "Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things that won't work."