“I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.”
“The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.”
“An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.”
“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”
“Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.”
“Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.”
“To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.”
“To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.”
“The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.”
“Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.”
“The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...”
“The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.”
“The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.”
“What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.”
“The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.”
“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”
“There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed”
“It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.”
“If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.”
“The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.”
“The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”
“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.”
“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”
“It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.”
“It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.”
“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
“Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.”