What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You read more

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, read more

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

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

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

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.