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• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

  Dale E. Turner

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Intelligent, Data, Understanding

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• One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

  Paul Nitze

  Achievement, Trying, Forget

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• Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wise, Heart, Wicked

  "Proverbial Philosophy (Of Truth in Things False)". Book by Martin Farquhar Tupper, 1839.

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• A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Life, Spiritual, Mistake

  Ulysses (1922)

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• A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, Mistake, Learning

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• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Letting Go, Mistake

  "The Bridge Across Forever". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

  Isaac Asimov

  Encouragement, Truth, Mistake

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• Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

  William Shakespeare

  Thanksgiving, Cheer, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1837). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.131

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• Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Failure, Learning, Admitting

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• Error is worse than ignorance.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ignorance

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.73

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• Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

  William James

  Heart, World, Certain

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• It is often easier to learn from the mistakes of others than from our own.

  Clarence H. Burns

  Mistake, Easier

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• You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

  Wayne Dyer

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• Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.

  Daniel Coyle

  Inspirational, Mistake, Struggle

  "The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown". Book by Daniel Coyle, 2010.

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• One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!

  Romain Rolland

  Lying, War, Light

  Romain Rolland, Charles Kay Ogden (1916). “Above the battle”

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• When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Adoption, Ends, Universal

  "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.

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• Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Understanding, Mastery, Energy

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.98

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• If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

  Stand Watie

  Intention, Commit, Ifs

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• The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Intelligent, Self, Creative

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• I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, House Of Cards, Fundamentals

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• We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

  Donald Berwick

  Design, Facts, Accepting

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• Theological error is the most pernicious of errors; it strikes at man's center and separates him from his Creator and Redeemer. God insisted not only that Israelites should judge their own hearts and cast aside falsehood about Him but that they should also confront it wherever it emerged.

  Max Anders

  Heart, Men, Judging

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• Error is most painful when it is found inside the family.

  Max Anders

  Painful, Found

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