Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

There is no original truth, only original error.

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, "That is all there was!" But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

No man fails who does his best...

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

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

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

Life would be dull without them.