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


Unknown Author (top)
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
- Unknown Author
Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one.
- Unknown Author
Never say, "oops." Always say, "Ah, interesting."
- Unknown Author
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.
- Unknown Author


Francis Bacon (top)
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
- Francis Bacon


Tallulah Bankhead (top)
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
- Tallulah Bankhead


Niels Bohr (top)
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
- Niels Bohr


Napoleon Bonaparte (top)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte


Mel Brooks (top)
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
- Mel Brooks


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


Dr. David M. Burns (top)
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
- Dr. David M. Burns


Marcus Cato (top)
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
- Marcus Cato


Cicero (top)
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
- Cicero


Confucius (top)
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
- Confucius


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


Henry S. Haskins (top)
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
- Henry S. Haskins


Cullen Hightower (top)
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower


Elbert Hubbard (top)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard


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


James Joyce (top)
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce


Henry C. Link (top)
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
- Henry C. Link


Sophia Loren (top)
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
- Sophia Loren


Peter McWilliams (top)
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
- Peter McWilliams
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
- Peter McWilliams


Mary Pickford (top)
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford


Alexander Pope (top)
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


John Powell (top)
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
- John Powell


Dan Quayle (top)
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
- Dan Quayle


George Bernard Shaw (top)
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw


Eli Siegel (top)
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
- Eli Siegel


Igor Stravinsky (top)
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.
- Igor Stravinsky


Rabindranath Tagore (top)
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore


Phyllis Theroux (top)
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
- Phyllis Theroux


Henry David Thoreau (top)
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
- Henry David Thoreau


Bill Vaughan (top)
In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
- Bill Vaughan


Jessamyn West (top)
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
- Jessamyn West


Oscar Wilde (top)
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde