The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Quote by Edward Phelps

Topics: Errors Quotes, Mankind Quotes, Mistakes Quotes

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a...

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a...

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to...

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to...

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in...

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in...

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it...

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it...

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error

Never say, 'oops.' Always say, 'Ah, interesting.'

Never say, 'oops.' Always say, 'Ah, interesting.'

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal....

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal....

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying...

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying...

No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the...

No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the...

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors,...

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors,...

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal....

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal....

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose...

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose...

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a...

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a...

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is...

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is...

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!