Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

There are times where I've made mistakes or our administration hasn't always aligned ourselves with the values we need to align ourselves with. It's a work of constant improvement.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.