Good Mistake Quotes

• Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mistake, Waste

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Apr 18, 2012

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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  A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Mistake, Struggle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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  A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

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• Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

  Jean Plaidy

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

  Daniel Dennett

  Mistake, Chiefs, Tricks

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

  Daniel Dennett

  Art, Mistake, Mind

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

  Sara Bareilles

  Mistake, Shame

  Song: Undertow, Album: Careful Confessions, 2004

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• The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mistake, Events, World

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 68, 1799.

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• If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.

  Edward Teller

  Mistake, Science, Genius

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.37, Basic Books

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