Quotes About Mistakes

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

We are all too fond of naive answers to complex questions, because it relieves us of the necessity of thinking hard and it permits us to find a scapegoat for our own mistakes. The simple answer almost always places the blame on someone else. We need to pluralize our thinking, to recognize that if you ask the wrong question, you cannot get the right answers.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Nemyslím, že p?eháním, ?eknu-li, že naše historie je jedna z nejzajímav?jších – jsme chlapíci, ale ?asto šlápneme vedle.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.

The choice is a simple one: Learn to fail, or fail to learn.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner

Even elephants do slip.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them. Unless Daniel was bluffing, he had made one last mistake, the same one he had been making all along. He was seeing the other four not as they were but as they should have been, could have been in some softer-edged and warmer world.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life. He would have been a lot better off thick as a plank.

I've spent my adult life trying to mend the mistakes I made when I was young, which is what we all do, I suppose—