MISTAKES QUOTES II
quotations about mistakes
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
ROBERT T. KIYOSAKI
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Success is the result of good judgment, good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment! What have you learned from a past mistake that you can use to improve your life today?
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Giant Steps: Small Changes to Make a Big Difference
Countless mistakes hang about the minds of men; and it is a difficult thing to discover what now, and also in the end, is best to happen to a man.
PINDARUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
If common sense were as unerring as calculus, as some suggest, I don't understand why so many mistakes are made so often by so many people.
CARY WINKEL
attributed, Explaining One's Self to Others: Reason-Giving in a Social Context
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
ALEXANDER POPE
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.
DIANE F. HALPERN
Thought and Knowledge
We are never so liable to fall into an error, as when we have just escaped from one.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
A double error sometimes sets us right.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
SRI AUROBINDO
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
WERNER HEISENBERG
Physics and Beyond
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
attributed, Campaigning for Napoleon: The Diary of a Napoleonic Cavalry Officer
To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
Let us be glad of the dignity of our privilege to make mistakes, glad of the wisdom that enables us to recognize them, glad of the power that permits us to turn their light as a glowing illumination along the pathway of our future.
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN
The Crown of Individuality
Our failures or mistakes give us important feedback on what we need to change or concentrate on in the future.
DANA LIGHTMAN
Power Optimism
It's a good deal easier to resist the first step on the road to ruin than any of the thousand that inevitably follow.
MARK FROST
The List of Seven
The noblest spirits are most sensible of the possibility of Error: and the weakest do most hardly lay down an Error.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The man who on discovering his errors acknowledges and corrects them, is scarcely less entitled to our esteem than if he had not erred.
JOHN PYE SMITH
Vindiciæ Academicæ
Mistakes are information about what works and what doesn't work. They have nothing to do with your worth or intelligence. They are merely steps to a goal.
JOHN BRADSHAW
Healing the Shame that Binds You
There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Illustrated London News, April 25, 1931