Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Just remember- when you think all is lost, the future remains.
You're uncomfortable with scientific skepticism. But the reason it developed is that the world is complicated. It's subtle. Everybody's first idea isn't necessarily right. Also, people are capable of self-deception. Scientists too. All sorts of socially abhorrent doctrines have at one time or another been supported by scientists, well-known scientists, famous brand-name scientists. And, of course, politicians. And respected religious leaders.
So the way you avoid the mistakes, or at least reduce the chance that you'll make one, is to be skeptical. You test the ideas. You check them out by rigorous standards of evidence.
Never say oops in the operating room.
We must recoil a little to the end we may leap the better.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
If you aren't obsessed with your mistakes then you don't love the field enough to get better.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
I didn't really know you, but the fact you were willing to admit you were wrong told me everything I needed to know.
But we try to approach our work with humility about what we don’t know and the determination to learn from our mistakes.
Forget the mistake, remember the lesson.
Through others errors, a wise man corrects his own.
The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
They say, best men are molded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband. Measure for Measure Act V Sc. 1
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
No matter how long you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.
Failure is not getting knocked down. Failure is not getting back up.
The road to ruin is always in good repair; the travellers pay the expense of it.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.