Rex Stout Quotes

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

The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

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

No one is wise at all times.

My mistakes are my life.

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

I make many mistakes. Many mistakes. I'm not a perfect human being. I have to learn from my mistakes. And a lot of the ones I've made have been public. So I always get nervous when people speak about something that sounds like a role model, because I don't know if I've been a great role model myself.

It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.

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

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.

I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

No one is always right.

Each of us in our time in high office had our ample share of severe critics. But only we actually knew, far better than our worst critics ever dreamed, how truly fallible and all-too-human each of us really was.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devilishly hard