If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. Jim Morrison
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go. Richard Bach
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. Carl Jung
Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that. Tony Benn
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process. Shelby Foote
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. Stephen Hawking
Human blunders usually, do more to shape history than human wickedness. A J P Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War, 1961
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
To err is human; to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. Henry Ford
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. Edmund Burke
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. Edna St Vincent Millay
Your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct. Chuck Palahniuk
I think it’s important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious – which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences. Robert Winston
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoléon Bonaparte
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce
You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them. Werner Heisenberg, Der Teil und das Ganze
My family has been an evolutionary mistake, Rab. Rab C Nesbitt s8e2: Heat, BBC 1999
Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn’t have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted ... but I had that hunger for more. I didn’t always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes. Curtis Jackson
You can only go forward by making mistakes. Alexander McQueen
The freedom to make my own mistakes was all I ever wanted. Game of Thrones s5e1: The Wars to Come, captured leader, HBO 2015
My name is Charlie Wood. I think I made a big mistake. Big Nothing 2006 starring Simon Pegg & David Schwimmer & Alice Eve & Jon Polito & Natascha McElhone & Mimi Rogers et al, director Jean-Baptiste Andrea, opening remarks
‘That’s the first mistake we’ve made since that guy sold us the Brooklyn Bridge.’ Stan Laurel, cited Ken Burns, Brooklyn Bridge, 1981
If I’d known what was going to happen, I wouldn’t have done some of the things I’ve done. To you. I sort of ’erm made a lot of mistakes with ya, son. Boys from the Blackstuff e2: Moonlighter, Dixie to son, BBC 1982
Simply end the mistakes. The Office US s8e6: Doomsday, Robert to Andy, NBC 2011
Freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. Stuff happens. Donald Rumsfeld, re Iraqi looting post-US invasion
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a narrow field. Niels Bohr
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action. Malcolm X
Vietnam: one can look at it as a failed venture, a mistake … We have no idea what the costs were to the Vietnamese. Noam Chomsky, compilation ‘War, State Power, and American Exceptionalism’, Youtube The Essentials 2.43.03
Even when the experts all agree they may well be mistaken. Bertrand Russell
Baltimore landslide: ‘And I can remember just seeing the vehicles go down, and they’re sinking, and sinking, and in a moment we watched that whole side of the street explode, and it hit like a mortar round, like boom!’ Massive Engineering Mistakes s1e1, Quest 2020