The wisest of the wise may err.

––Aeschylus

Anyone who doesn’t make mistakes isn’t trying hard enough.

––Wess Roberts

An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

––Orlando A. Battista

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

––George Soros

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

––Oscar Wilde

The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.

––General David M. Shoup

If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

––R. Buckminster Fuller

Know when to tune out. If you listen to too much advice, you may wind up making other people’s mistakes.

––Ann Landers

You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming someone else.

—Anonymous

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

––Tallulah Bankhead