Quotes about mistakes

If the living are haunted by the dead. Then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes."

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

“We all make mistakes,” the cab said piously.

“But some of us,” Barney said, “make fatal ones.” First about our loved ones, our wife and children, and then about our employer, he said to himself.

The cab hummed on.

And then, he said to himself, we make one last one. About our whole life, summing it all up. Whether to take a job with Eldritch or go into the service. And whichever we choose we can know this:

It was the wrong alternative.

I'll never make that mistake again, reading the experts' opinions. Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

Intelligence takes chance with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

It is said that the only fear we cannot correct is the fear of our own mistakes.

To save one from a mistake is a gift of paradise.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness," is the real reason you find it hard to get started. This gumption trap of anxiety, which results from over-motivation, can lead to all kinds of errors of excessive fussiness. You fix things that don't need fixing, and chase after imaginary ailments. You jump to wild conclusions and build all kinds of errors into the machine because of your own nervousness. These errors, when made, tend to confirm your original underestimation of yourself. This leads to more errors, which lead to more underestimation, in a self-stoking cycle. The best way to break this cycle, I think, is to work out your anxieties on paper. Read every book and magazine you can on the subject. Your anxiety makes this easy and the more you read the more you calm down.

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.