Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jef...
It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day like those of a baseball player.
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Too much talk will include errors.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.
All sins cast long shadows.