Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I have not always behaved well. I can admit that. I get things wrong, I learn.

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.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

I learned from my past.

America is big enough to admit when it's wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

Where I Was Wrong

I've learnt from my life experience.