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- An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- 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 (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'
- Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
- Sophia Loren (1934 - )
- There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- Love truth, and pardon error.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
- Ward Cleaver
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