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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright
US architect (1869 - 1959)

A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.

Mick Lloyd Kerman

The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.

Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakower

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

anonymous

Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.

Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
Roman orator & politician (234 BC - 149 BC)

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Mitch Ratcliffe

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James
British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster
Writer and Professor at Vassar College

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer in US (1882 - 1971)

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Alexander Senturia

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.

Malcom X , The Atobiograghy of Malcom X

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
Russian author & dissident in US (1918 - )

We might make mistakes but we will make other things too.

Michael Joseph Savage

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