He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.
Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.
I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.
I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.
it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.
If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.
Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
