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. 631
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. 657
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. 611
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. 2.18K
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. 674
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes. 636
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” 788
