Error Recognition Quotes

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make for a long time. But as you go through a campaign, there's lots of decision points you make, and you don't know whether those are gonna be the right decision points or not.

Mistakes only cost you when you don't acknowledge them.

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

If I learned all this so slowly it was because I learned by my mistakes, and some time always elapses between making a mistake and realizing it, and more time between realizing it and exactly determining it.

Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.

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

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

I remember I had to play a blind person once, and I did this stupid thing with my eyes, and I knew the minute I started it I'd made a mistake.

First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.

Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.