To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
We can afford almost any mistake once.
We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.
We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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