Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Mistakes.
I have never been contained except I made the prison
Mary Evans
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley
To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
Leo Burnett
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
Arnold Bennett
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Billy Joel
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine
Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
Jean Paul
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Jeremy Taylor
There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.
Croesus
There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston Bachelard
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
Ornette Coleman
The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
Piet Hein
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Joyce Brothers
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Johann von Goethe
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
George Eliot
I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
Charles Darwin
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes Jr.
