John Ashcroft Quotes

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

I haven't always made the right decisions.

I've been wrong so often, I don't find it extraordinary at all.

If one doesn’t examine one’s mistakes and look back, how else does one have vision?

As President I'll make mistakes because I'm going to do things ... and people who do things err.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.

We need to remember we're always a lot more wrong than we think.

Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.

Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

I've certainly never helped anybody save the day, in any capacity. If anybody is going to understand making a few mistakes, it's me.

I made the wrong mistakes

I made my fair share of mistakes.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'