Bon mots: mistakes

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
--James Joyce

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde

"The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe."
--Doug Larson

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
--Edward John Phelps

"I've acquired quite a taste
For a well-made mistake,
I wanna make a mistake,
Why can't I make a mistake?"
--Fiona Apple, "A Mistake"

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."
--Niels Bohr

"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes."
--Mel Brooks

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
--Edmund Burke

"Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations."
--Niccolo Machiavelli