Marie Louise Quotes

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

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.

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

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

Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.

I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

I have made mistakes.

I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.

Sure we make mistakes. But point them out and we will correct them. Let's not throw the baby out, though, with the dishes.

[It is] ... a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.