Quotes About Mistake

Both China and Russia felt duped by the U.N. 'no-fly' zone resolution regarding Libya in 2011 that eventually led to the ouster of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. China and Russia had abstained from the Libyan resolution, and neither country plans to make what they regard as a similar mistake again.

What's done can't be undone.

The mind of the most logical thinker goes so easily from one point to another that it is not hard to mistake motion for progress.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, - As patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

In a great mistake.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

It is only error in judgement to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before.

I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.