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Quotes About Mistakes

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it's wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings.
~ Auliq Ice
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
~ Otto von Bismarck
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
~ Edmund Burke
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
~ Bill Cosby
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
Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.
~ Theodore Levitt
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
~ Huineng
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them
~ Harold J. Smith
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
~ Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
~ Tryon Edwards
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
~ Holly Near
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
~ Doug Larson
No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
~ James Cook
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
~ Leon Brown
You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
~ Johann Ludwig Tieck
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
~ Josh Billings
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.
~ John C. Maxwell
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
~ Aristotle
When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
~ Hugh Prather