Showing posts with label mistakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mistakes. Show all posts

Sunday, November 06, 2022

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Post #2139

Any man may commit a mistake, but none but a fool will continue in it.
—Cicero

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

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

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Post #1098

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
—Antisthenes

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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 Rickover

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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

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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Post #439

He that has much to do will do something wrong.
—Samuel Johnson

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Post #417

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
—Publilius Syrus


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Sunday, November 07, 2010

Post #401

He that has much to do will do something wrong.
—Samuel Johnson

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Post #366

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
—Publilius Syrus


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