Mistakes Quotes
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.Buddha
If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.Leon Trotsky
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien
It is better to be high - Spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow - Minded and all to prudent.Vincent Van Gogh
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.E. J. Phelps
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.Sydney Smith
A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.Mick Lloyd Kerman
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.Henry C. Link
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.Frank Lloyd Wright
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.Henry C. Blinn
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.Winston Churchill
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.Cato the Elde
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.John Peel
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.Werner Karl Heisenberg
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.Dan McKinnon
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.Henry James
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.Confucius
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.Ornette Coleman
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.Niels Henrik David Boh
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - So they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.H. L. Wayland
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.Igor Stravinsky
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.Mahatma Gandhi
The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakowe
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
We made too many wrong mistakes.Yogi Berra
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.W. E. Gladstone
