A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. 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.
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
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.
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