“Some people have made some mistakes … and some mistakes have made some people.”

“Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them”. HS/el”

“Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.”

“Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.”

“Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.”

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”

“You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.”

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

“Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.”

“But what if I make a mistake?’ Will asked.Gilan threw back his head and laughed. ‘A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You’ll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you’ll make mistakes. Just don’t make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don’t try to hide it. Don’t try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.”

“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.”

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

“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.”

“Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier.”