Mistakes Quotes
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
The cautious seldom err.
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Next to the promulgation of truth, the best thing I can coneive that man can do is the public recantation of an error.
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving an argument than its frank admission.
Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.
There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.
Everybody should have a chance at a breathtaking piece of folly.
Admit your errors freely and soon.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses' asses. I know I'll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.
There's no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes.
I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every missed chance in life was an opportunity to behave well, every missed chance in life was an opportunity to learn something, and that your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in constructive fashion. That is a very good idea.
To err is human; to refrain from laughing, humane.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Anyone can make a mistake. A fool insists on repeating it.
Follies change their type but foolishness remains.
We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerantly that I would be less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.
We learn to walk by stumbling.
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
There is no saint without a past—no sinner without a future.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.
To obtain maximum attention, it's hard to beat a good, big mistake.
Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.
If you don't make mistakes, you can't make decisions.
To err is common and normal. To admit it is very unlikely.
A mistake, if understood, is but a step towards wisdom.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
If I wasn't making mistakes, I wasn't making decisions.
The first undertakers in all great attempts commonly miscarry and leave the advantages of their losses to those who come after them.
One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
I don't want to make the wrong mistake.
Stumbling is not falling.
Truth burns up error.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
The road to wisdom? -- Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to stick to it.
Every decision you make is a mistake.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Truth emerges more readily from error than confusion.
It seems, indeed, a necessary weakness of our mind to be able to reach truth only across a multitude of errors and obstacles.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
Error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.
Experience, the name men give to their mistakes. I never commit any.
If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly, like a snake.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer.
The higher your position, the more mistakes you're allowed. In fact, if you make enough of them, it's considered your style.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
Mistakes are a fact of life It is the response to error that counts.
Our "mistakes" become crucial parts, sometimes the best parts, of the lives we have made.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster which they call Destiny.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
If only one could have two lives: the first, in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they had to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Mistakes are the adolescence of experience.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
My mistakes loom large and reign ignoble, but my takeaways thread veins of iron into my fabric.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions—especially selfish ones.
Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions—especially selfish ones.
Many a truth is the result of an error.
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good, because at least some decisions are being made along the way.
A recognized and corrected error vanishes leaving two things of great value—experience of error, and how to rise above it.
Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
To learn from a mistake, first figure out if it was really a mistake.
