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Benjamin Franklin2 quotes
Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn In no other. — Benjamin Franklin · 1743To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish. — Benjamin Franklin · 1742William Blake2 quotes
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake · 1793If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. — William Blake · 1793Alexander Pope1 quote
To err is human, to forgive divine. — Alexander Pope · 1711Charles Dickens1 quote
As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence. — Charles Dickens · 1838Douglas Adams1 quote
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. — Douglas Adams · 1992Edward Bloom1 quote
Now there comes a point when a reasonable man will swallow his pride and admit he's made a terrible mistake. The truth is…I was never a reasonable man. — Edward Bloom · 2003Fiorello La Guardia1 quote
When I make a mistake, it's a beaut! — Fiorello La Guardia · 1976Isaac Newton1 quote
Errors are not in the art, but in the artificers. — Isaac Newton · 1687Jake Shuttlesworth1 quote
You don't make no mistakes? You be out here shootin', but you don't miss no shots ever? Ever? People make mistakes! People veer off the path! So what? God forgives them! — Jake Shuttlesworth · 1998James Joyce1 quote
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce · 1922Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1 quote
Man will err while yet he strives. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808John Locke1 quote
All men are liable to error, and most men are in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. — John Locke · 1690Joseph Conrad1 quote
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes. — Joseph Conrad · 1896Martin Farquhar Tupper1 quote
Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil. — Martin Farquhar Tupper · 1838Mary1 quote
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. — Mary · 2004Neil Gaiman1 quote
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. — Neil Gaiman · 2011Oscar Wilde1 quote
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. — Oscar Wilde · 1892Roy Hobbs1 quote
Some mistakes I guess we never stop paying for. — Roy Hobbs · 1984Salvador Dali1 quote
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. — Salvador Dali · 1965Saul1 quote
Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly. — Saul · 722 BCThomas Carlyle1 quote
Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy. — Thomas Carlyle · 1828Victor Hugo1 quote
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. — Victor Hugo · 1862