Isaac Stern Quotes
It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
Stern, Isaac, and Chaim Potok. My First 79 Years. Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Politicians, bureaucrats, and appointees all will make mistakes unless they do nothing. Learning from those mistakes is an opportunity to avoid the same or similar errors in the future as well as to become wiser in general. However, many politicians are reluctant to admit that they made an error. In a polarized political atmosphere, political opponents will castigate politicians who admit to a , administrative, policy or judgment error. None the less, the greatest of the politicians learned from past errors and bcame great, in part as a result of their learning from mistakes.
Isaac Stern was an American violinist.