Mistakes Quotes
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.Donald Foste
Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on.Peter McWilliams
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.Ornette Coleman
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.Confucius
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
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.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.Niels Henrik David Boh
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
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.Richard Buckminster Fulle
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.Miles Davis
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.Wilbur N. Nesbit
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
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratliffe
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self - Examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self - Righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.Dr. Dale E. Turne
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.Henry James
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.John Peel
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.Buddha
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
I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.Frank Capra
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.John Oliver Hobbes
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.W. E. Gladstone
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.Ted W. Engstrom
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
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 a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.Author 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
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
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
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.Mary Lou Cook
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!Derwood Finche
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.Denis Watley
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw

