Mistakes Quotes
If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.Leon Trotsky
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.Josh Billings
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.John Oliver Hobbes
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
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.Mahatma Gandhi
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.Niels Henrik David Boh
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.Sydney Smith
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.Lillian Hellman
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.Ornette Coleman
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.James A. Froude
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.W. E. Gladstone
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
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
We made too many wrong mistakes.Yogi Berra
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.Miles Davis
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
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.E. J. Phelps
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.Henry James
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.Donald Foste
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
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.Aubrey Menen
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
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.Plutarch
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
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
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on.Peter McWilliams
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.Buddha
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.Mary Lou Cook
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.Sophia Loren
The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakowe
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.Tryon Edwards
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.Unknown
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 Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
