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The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
Sep 29, 2025
It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes
Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.
If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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