Quotes about Acknowledging Error

Nelson Mandela

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Daniel W. Drezner

Changing course implies an admission that the previous course was incorrect, and no administration likes to do that.

Politics is peculiar in the sense that most things are seen as black or white. In most other areas of human endeavor, people change, not because the old way was incorrect, but because the new way might be better. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity did not totally invalidate the physics of Issac Newton; it just improved on it in some areas.

William Bayliss

… there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.

When a scientist is persuaded to change his position, he is acting in the great tradition of the best of scientists. When a politician does the same, he is a flip flopper, without any real principles and clearly not to be trusted. A scientist would not be trusted by his peers if he did not readily change is views.

E. M. S. Namboodiripad

When we own up our mistakes some people interpret it as if we are wrong. They too commit mistakes.

First non-Congress Party governor of an Indian State (Communist)

Chael Sonnen

When you go, 'Listen, I didn't know. I didn't know the rules.' That works. That's a good, solid defense. One time.

Nadya Suleman

I take accountability for being dumb and irresponsible.

Carl Hart

It takes some courage to say you were wrong.

Peter Coyote

I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.

Samuel Johnson

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Robert Half

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

George Washington

It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

Nicole Byer

It's not a weakness to admit that you're wrong.

Jason Giambi

What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'

David Kay

The Bush administration should come clean with the American people and admit that they were wrong.

Toto Wolff

By admitting a mistake, it is easier to get yourself out of a spiral.

Gennaro Gattuso

You have to admit your mistakes and apologise for them.

Emily Thornberry

When you've made a mistake, you have to admit you've made a mistake, and correct it.

Lauren DeStefano

It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

Alex Rodriguez

I take full responsibility for the mistakes that led to my suspension for the 2014 season.

Gelett Burgess

Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.

Alvin Toffler

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Acknowledging Error Quotes