The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
A human being is absolutely independent; therefore whatever happens to him
is completely his own responsibility. The one who holds others responsible,
repeatedly commits the same mistakes again and again.
-Deep Trivedi
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Alexander Pope
"Swift: Miscellanies"
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin