Charles Mackay Quotes

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

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.

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

I believe I have learned much from the mistakes that I made when I was Mayor, that I have grown from these experiences. [He won!]

One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.

It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future.

Hindsight does always serve the purpose of putting you in the right, and if you don't have it, you find yourself very often in the wrong.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

You do learn from what you've done in the past.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.