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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. – Phyllis Theroux, Night Lights

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes. – Aubrey Menen

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. – Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. – James Joyce, Ulysses

Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. – Francis Bacon

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. – Andrew V. Mason

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. – Sydney Smith

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. – Syrus

No one is listening until you make a mistake. – Anon.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. – Chinese Proverb

Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself. – Scottish Proverb

An old error is always more popular than a new truth. – Proverb

No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves. – Proverb

Our friends dont see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them. – Joseph Addison

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. – David Augsburger

Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. – Tallulah Bankhead

If I had my life to live again. Id make the same mistakes, only sooner. – Tallulah Bankhead

An error doesnt become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. – Orlando A. Battista

Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder. – Jean Baudrillard

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