Mistakes

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. ~GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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

Admitting Error clears the Score

And proves you Wiser than before. ~ARTHUR GUITERMAN

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. ~DR. ORLANDO A. BATTISTA

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ~ALBERT EINSTEIN

But inwardly, the next day I saw that I had made a false step.  A penitent such as I was, my vita ante acta, my melancholy, that was enough. ~SOREN KIERKEGAARD, My relation to "her", August 24, 1849

Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! ~ALFRED ADLER

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.  All life is an experiment.  The more experiments you make the better.  What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn?  What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice?  Up again; you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. ~RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African PROVERB

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ~FRANKLIN P. JONES

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. ~THEODORE ROOSEVELT

For my own Error is something I can discover only by myself, since it is only when I have discovered it that it is discovered, even if the whole world knew of it before. ~SOREN KIERKEGAARD, Philosophical Fragments

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ~“MAHATMA” MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own. ~PUBLILIUS SYRUS

I can pardon everyone's mistakes but my own. ~MARCUS PORCIUS CATO

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one. ~JAMES GORDON BENNETT

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth. ~HANS REICHENBACH

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn. ~JUSTICE EARL WARREN

In my view, God educates us through our deceptions and mistakes, in order to make us understand at last that we ought to believe only in Him, and not in man. ~JACQUES MARITAIN

It was when I found out that I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. ~ORNETTE COLEMAN

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ~JAMES JOYCE

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. FRED ALE

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill. ~DOUG HORTON

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. ~DAVID AUGSNURGER

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in prejudices picked up in childhood. ~RENE DESCARTES

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~ELBERT HUBBARD

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong. ~HARRY WEINBERGER

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. ~BISHOP W. C. MAGEE

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ~JOHN POWELL

The path to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrongturnings. ~CARL JUNG

The wisest of the wise may err. ~AESCHYLUS

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth--that error and truth are simply opposite.  They are nothing of the sort.  What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end. ~CARL BARD

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. ~J. JENKINS

Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. ~FRANCIS BACON

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. ~BENJAMIN FRANKLIN