Experience is a name everyone gives to their mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde
Showing posts with label mistakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mistakes. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 08, 2014
Post #1544
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin ; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
—Thomas Carlyle
—Thomas Carlyle
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Post #1341
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
—Walter Savage Landor
—Walter Savage Landor
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Post #1098
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
—Antisthenes
—Antisthenes
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Post #1063
Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Learn from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.
—Hyman George RickoverGet a Random Quote Here
—Hyman George RickoverGet a Random Quote Here
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Post #958
The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err, and err, and err again. But less, and less, and less.
—Piet Hein
—Piet Hein
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Post #366
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
—Publilius Syrus
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—Publilius Syrus
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