Quotes About Mistakes

A local advertising periodical offered the following disclaimer: Just in case you find mistakes in this paper, please remember they were put there for a purpose. Some folks are always looking for mistakes, and we try to please everyone!

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

The sum of all your mistakes are equal to your success

Du hast vergessen, daß Liebende heilig sind. Auch wenn sie sich irren, Joh; selbst ihr Irrtum ist heilig. Auch wenn sie Narren sind, Joh; selbst ihre Narrheit ist heilig. Denn wo Liebende sind, ist der Garten Gottes, und niemand hat das Recht, sie daraus zu vertreiben. Nicht einmal Gott.

You've been making the wrong mistakes.

Die Jugend, auch in ihren Fehlern ist sie noch schön und liebenswürdig, und das Alter, auch in seinen Tugenden taugt es nicht viel.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

After a while, you find yourself waiting for that wrong note, you want to hear that wrong note, that subtle variance in pitch. People aren't machines. They make mistakes. They hit wrong notes.

Human life is a series of mistakes justified by reason; there is no escape from it since the reason is the first mistake born out of a process subsequently understood as the very life by the very reason!

An important book for understanding the history of our economic boom & bust cycles. It's an eye-opening account of how we are repeating the mistakes of the 1760's, 1850's, and 1920's. The author is a brilliant writer and is so good at explaining even the most complex subjects in a compelling & easy to understand way. The next crash will be painful but it's important to understand what is being done to us, and how we can learn from history and take action.

Pastors and other church leaders make mistakes. Church members often exacerbate them.

Fearful leaders love to stay in the morass of insignificant details. Because the details are usually unimportant, it is difficult to make a mistake of consequence. Of course, it's impossible to do anything of consequence when your focus is on those things that really don't make a difference.

He who shunneth not small faults falleth little by little into greater.

He who shaneth not small faults falleth little by little into greater.

What a Babel of voices it was, everybody directing everybody else, and everybody doing everything wrong!

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...

We followed the rump of a misguiding woman. It is the usual thing for a herd led by a mare to be strayed and destroyed.

Trying to forget or hide your mistakes is a huge error. Rather, hold them near and dear to your heart. Wear them proudly.

Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.

To grow you must understand and admit your mistakes, it is an approach that works for me, it is not necessarily the same for everyone.

The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind of society are we? What can we learn from the mistakes of the past, and how do we position ourselves in the world?