Saint Augustine Quotes

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

Humans make mistakes.

Everybody makes mistakes.

Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I ha been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought I was wrong.

To err is human, to persist is diabolical.

How many crimes committed merely because their authors could not endure being wrong.

I haven't been perfect.

We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.

None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I’m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces...they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

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