Quotes About Mistakes

For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.

You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. - The Mathemagician

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.

Why were men such fools, that they created the very hurts for themselves that they most feared?

And my number-one spiritual practice is trying to live in the present moment … to resist projecting into the future, or lamenting past mistakes … to feel the real power of now. That, my friends, is the secret to a joyful life.

Çok hata ettim, ona hava att?m, onunla arkadaÅŸ olamad?m," dedi Süleyman. "Ama o da çok sivri dilliydi. Kimse, k?zlarla nas?l konuÅŸulur, bu zor iÅŸin s?rr?n? bize öÄŸretmedi. Bir erkekle konuÅŸur gibi, ama hiç küfür etmeden konuÅŸuyordum. Olmad?

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew. He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six. Right. And you're the oldest. Yes. That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

I'm on his death list, too." "Then why are you still alive?" asked Peter. "Because, contrary to widespread belief, Achilles is not a genius and he makes mistakes.

Illness or adultery, Alvin figured ignorance worked about as well in both cases. Not knowing just meant it was going to get worse.

He sat upon the hill, a Gatefather who was now but a shadow of himself, and wept. For all his crimes he wept, for all who had died before he could save them, for the mages he had stripped of power even more utterly than he had been stripped today. I held their outselves in my hearthoard for a thousand years, some of them, or more I made myself the thief of hearts, and now I am repaid.

I believe, when it comes to storytelling ... that mistakes are often the beginning of the best ideas. After all, a mistake wasn't planned. It can't be a cliché. All you have to do is think of a reason why the mistake isn't a mistake at all, and you might have something fresh and wonderful, something to stimulate a story you never thought of quite that way before.

As Ender had once said, most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them — noticing them — that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

it was Hitler's mistakes, his weaknesses, his fears, his hatreds, that lost the back half of the war, just as it was his drive, his decisions, that won the front half.