Mistakes Quotes

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Henrik David Boh
Alexander solzhenitsyn, peace and violence, sct. 2, in index, no. 4 (london, 1973. - it is not because the truth is too difficult to...
A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.
Mick Lloyd Kerman
H. l. wayland - show us a man who never makes a mistake and we...
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
William Arthur Ward
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.
Derwood Finche
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
Ted W. Engstrom
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
Donald Foste
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Boh
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!
Derwood Finche
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
Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.
Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
We made too many wrong mistakes.
Yogi Berra
If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Leon Trotsky
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratliffe
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Watley
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elde
We might make mistakes but we will make other things too.
Michael Joseph Savage
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.
Alexander Senturia
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
W. E. Gladstone
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky