Top 100 Wisdom Mistakes Quotes
#1. Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dale Turner
#2. By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
Huineng
#3. The more mistakes I make, the less I judge other people's mistakes
Bayan Bahi
#4. Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.
T.F. Hodge
#5. Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly; without first having to lose one's life.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#6. It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.
Jeffrey Fry
#7. Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can't be good, be careful.
Baltasar Gracian
#8. I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.
Woody Allen
#10. Wisdom keeps us from making foolish mistakes.
Diane Goold
#11. Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.
Ralph Marston
#12. You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.
Robin Sharma
#13. You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don't prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It's harder, but it's not impossible.
Siobhan Vivian
#14. I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
#15. You can lock a lion up in a room, if you want to, but you'll still hear it growling and clawing to get out.
K. Martin Beckner
#16. Making mistakes is important because it makes you wiser.
Debasish Mridha
#17. If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
Holly Near
#18. Have no fear in the devil and acknowledge the insecurities, mistakes of the past, and disappointments that you have long failed to accept as new beginnings and see the child within you begin to heal.
Forrest Curran
#19. The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence.
Jasper Sole
#20. Wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.
Tim Bray
#21. The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
Orson Scott Card
#22. How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
David Norris
#23. Wisdom is the understanding that God exist, and that he is the creator of all life and things in the universe and upon Earth. This is truth. When we realize mistakes we have made, we should make serious efforts to correct them. This also, is truth.
Ellen J. Barrier
#24. But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
Alexander McCall Smith
#25. So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
David Mitchell
#26. A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.
Jack Kerouac
#27. Biggest mistakes in life is not to do one.
Biggest risk in life is afraid to take one.
Debasish Mridha
#28. I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes.
Neil Gaiman
#30. Life and relationships is like a card game, you have to learn different strategies, learn from your mistakes, always play to win, show no mercy, take chances, believe in yourself, and play hand after hand until you finally win the game.
Jonathan Burkett
#31. If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.
Michael A. Singer
#33. You've turned my wounds into wisdom. Teaching me to learn from my mistakes. Which ones were mine and which were out of my control.
Cheryl McIntyre
#34. Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#36. I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.
Vironika Tugaleva
#37. If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
Barbara Tuchman
#38. Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Theroux
#39. Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. Make mistakes often without remorse or fear. You will gain experience and will be a winner.
Debasish Mridha
#41. In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.
Edgar H Schein
#42. People say there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.
John C. Maxwell
#43. No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#44. Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.
D.H. Lawrence
#45. -I was young! I made a mistake, okay! Haven't you ever made a mistake?
-I'm old! Of course I've made mistakes, you stupid little shit!
Drea Damara
#46. Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.
T.A. Uner
#47. Stay away from any minute of joy that can bring you a lifetime of sorrow.
Dennis E. Adonis
#48. You are not your mistakes and your mistakes are not you.
Bryant McGill
#49. If experience is life's best teacher then why do we have to learn by example?
Terry Blakeman
#50. Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
Leon Brown
#51. Happy will be those who take a lesson and warning from the mistakes and misfortunes of others and seek, nevertheless, to adopt the good they offer. Wisdom, wherever he finds it, it's a believer's goal, because he is more worthy of it than anyone else.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#52. Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.
Osho
#53. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
#54. Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.
Megan Crane
#55. You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.
Robert Kiyosaki
#56. Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes; own them ... learn from them. Don't throw away the lesson by blaming others.
Steve Maraboli
#58. Innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our mistakes that we commit. But once you get your Realization, your innocence is re-established, manifests, and you become innocent. Your attention becomes innocent.
Nirmala Srivastava
#59. Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.
Wil Zeus
#60. The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
#61. There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.
Norman Wisdom
#62. Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C.S. Lewis
#63. There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but don't ever forget to mind the real lessons from the story behind what you like.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#64. The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.
Frederick Lenz
#65. There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life ... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#66. Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#67. Learn from the past, be thankful for the past, forgive the mistakes of the past, and let it go.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Show me a man who mistakes patience for weakness and I'll show you a fool.
DeWayne Owens
#70. The only thing you are allowed to take from an affair is wisdom. You can't say you are glad you did it or had moments of joy, but you can say that you learned a lot from your mistakes.
Robin Black
#71. The greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.
Alexandre Dumas
#72. The more mistakes I make, the least I judge other people's mistakes
Bayan Bahi
#73. Young hearts too often have tunnel vision.
K.J. Farnham
#74. Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.
Michael Meade
#75. You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.
Rick Heinrichs
#76. WISDOM ISN'T ABOUT NOT MAKING MISTAKES BUT ABOUT LEARNING TO ESCAPE AFTERWARD WITH OUR DIGNITY AND SANITY INTACT.
Richard Templar
#77. The best mistakes are made when the worst of heart breaks occur. When Love is blind and the captive, faithful.
Solange Nicole
#78. Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.
Diane Duane
#79. The mistakes of the wise lead them to light. The triumphs of fools lead them to darkness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#80. 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.
Plutarch
#81. The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.
Paulo Coelho
#82. Don't make excuses for your mistakes.
Don't try to please your enemies.
Don't run from your responsibilities.
Don't force your opinions on others.
Don't complain about things you can change.
Don't compare yourself to anyone.
Don't let undeserving people into your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#83. I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too ... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses.
A Gentlemen
#84. We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
Adrian Grenier
#85. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
Helen Simonson
#89. For every choice you make, there is a consequence to face. Choose wisely!
Kemi Sogunle
#90. As a human being, we are on a continuous journey of self-discovery and experience.
Miranda J. Barrett
#91. Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember
nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand.
Sathya Sai Baba
#92. Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength.
John Newton
#93. Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.
Jess C. Scott
#94. I am not a 'wise man,' nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.
Seneca.
#95. It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster.
Joel Shepherd
#96. I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#97. Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby
#98. More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them
Harold J. Smith
#99. Sometimes you may think you're doing the right thing, but it turns out to be the wrong thing. And you just have to live with it. If I'd known what I know now when I was young, I could have done a lot more right, but I didn't. That's the way life is: you figure it out right before you die.
K. Martin Beckner
#100. Expertise is simply the wisdom that emerges from cellular error. Mistakes aren't things to be discouraged. On the contrary, they should be cultivated and carefully investigated.
Jonah Lehrer
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