Quotes about mistakes

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

It is no weakness for the wisest man

To learn when he is wrong.

All men are liable to err; but when an error hath been made, that man is no longer witless or unblest who heals the ill into which he hath fallen, and remains not stubborn.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason; truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

It is as certain as it is marvelous that truth and error come from one source. Therefore one often may not injure error, because at the same time one injures truth.

Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.

“You were hurt,” Kumiko said, looking at the scar.

Sally looked down. “Yeah.”

“Why don’t you have it removed?”

“Sometimes it’s good to remember.”

“Being hurt?”

“Being stupid.”

Not blaming ourselves for mistakes is the flip side of not taking credit for our acts of courage or creativity or leadership, or our good ideas.

Any group which makes a claim to infallibility must be very careful not to make any mistakes, and the mistakes that will inevitably occur must be kept secret or explained away—by lies, subterfuges and distortions. And that will eventually cause the collapse of the entire edifice.

Owning your mistakes meant not making them twice.

Attempt new strategies which will convert previous defeats into victory.

Quentin thought about how wrong things had gone. Things so often went wrong. Was it him? Was he making the same mistake over and over again? Or different mistakes? He like to think he was at least making different mistakes.