Quotes about mistakes

(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.

For I'm the devil at quick mistakes, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.