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| A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once | | Phyllis Diller | |
| A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. | | Douglas Adams | |
| All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. | | Winston Churchill | |
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| An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. | | Niels Bohr | |
| Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. | | Albert Einstein | |
| But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even s | | Winston Churchill | |
| Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. | | Oscar Wilde | |
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| From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. | | Sigmund Freud | |
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| Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them | | Peter Ustinov | |
| It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered | | Christian Nevell Bovee | |
| It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. | | Jessamyn West | |
| Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. | | Sophia Loren | |
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| Mistakes are their own instructors | | Horace | |
| 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 Gustav Jung | |
