Mistakes Quotes

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
- James A. Froude

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
- Phyllis Therous

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
- Thomas Jefferson

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
- Thomas Paine

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.
- Nikki Giovanni

I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.
- Denis Waitley

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi

She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
- Henry James

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.
- Harold J. Smith

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
- Henri Fréderic Amiel

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.
- Confucius

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
- Niels Bohr

Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.
- Charlie Munger

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
- Billy Wilder

It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
- Garry Marshall

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
- Philip Knight

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- Franklin P. Jones

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
- Donald Foster

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.
- William Durant

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
- Pearl S. Buck

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.
- Henry David Thoreau

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
- Peter McWilliams

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