Famous Quotes about Mistakes (139 Quotations)

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity –namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means –one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the ''slowing up'' of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ''Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?''

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.