Quotes about mistakes

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

"When I consider," she added, in a yet more agitated voice, "that I might have prevented it! — I who knew what he was. Had I but explained some part of it only — some part of what I learnt — to my own family! Had his character been known, this could not have happened. But it is all, all too late now."

The paths of error are various and infinite.

(Of Shakespeare) A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery (243)

Bosh! Stephen said rudely. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

Well, it was healthy to miss once in a while. It kept self-confidence balanced at a point safely short of arrogance.

The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!

Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Keep where you are because, if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime.