Plutarch Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

We make mistakes, but we learn from them.

You gotta be careful and just learn from your mistakes.

Looking back, I made my mistakes and I understand and learned from them.

I have made my mistakes and learnt from those.

I've made plenty of mistakes, and I'm sure I'll make more.

Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life.

We are all human, and mistakes are just around the corner, but experience lets you try to avoid them.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

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.

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