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No one is listening until you make a mistake.
-Anon.
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
-Chinese Proverb
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Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.
-Scottish Proverb
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
-Anon.
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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
-Proverb
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No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves.
-Proverb
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Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
-Joseph Addison
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.
-Louis Aragon
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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
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There is no original truth, only original error.
-Gaston Bachelard
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A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).
-J. G. Ballard
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
-Tallulah Bankhead
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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
-Tallulah Bankhead
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
-Orlando A. Battista
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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
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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
-Arnold Bennett
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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
-James Gordon Bennett
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We made too many wrong mistakes.
-Yogi Berra
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Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-Josh Billings
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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...
-Nelson Boswell
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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.
-John Bradshaw
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
-Mel Brooks
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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
-Joyce Brothers
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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.
-James Bryce
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Books about Mistakes
