Mistakes Quotes

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Vilfredo Pareto

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Hyman Rickover

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Mao Zedong

You seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time.

Orson Scott Card

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

Steve Jobs

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

George Bernard Shaw

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

Confucius

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

Confucius

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Confucius

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Kimon Nicolaides

Don't confuse poor decision making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's OK; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!

Steve Maraboli

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lewis Lehr

As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.

William Osler

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

James Gordon Bennett

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

Marquise De SeVigne

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Louis Aragon