#mistake

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition. ↗

— Sharon Kay Penman

#repentance #men

The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo, the belief that you are never wrong. Believing you are never wrong is an error that afflicts great men. I have learned that to be right you must first be wrong many times. Without making errors--and learning from them--a man cannot find the truth. ↗

— Christopher Peter Grey

#hubris #mistakes #truth #men

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#mistakes #honesty

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#deniability #mistakes #passive-voice #politics #villainy

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#care #dodging #establishing #god #made

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#doing #live #make #mistake #never

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it. ↗

— Adam Ant

#make #mistake #should #you

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#could #i #i do #learn #mistake

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#applications #costs #flaw #fraud #fundamentally

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#better #doing #lot #making #making mistakes