“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error”
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Marcus Tullius Cicero180
Roman philosopher and statesman -106–-43 BCRelated quotes
“No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.”
Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan
The Second Part, Chapter 26, p. 144
Leviathan (1651)
Steven Brust book Iorich
Source: Iorich (2010), p. 172 <!-- (goodreads) http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/6874180 --> <br class="br">Context: A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.
Khosrow Bagheri (1957) Iranian philosopher of education
Source: Website of Mehr News Agency, 2017 http://www.mehrnews.com/news/3954046/%D9%BE%D8%B0%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B4-%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A7-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B6%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA
“A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Source: The Writings of John Lennon
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950) Cuban writer
Source: Dirty Havana Trilogy
“The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever (1976)
“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
As quoted by Jacob A. Riis in Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1904), chapter XVI A Young Men's Hero http://www.bartleby.com/206/16.html <br class="br">1900s
Ingvar Kamprad (1926–2018) Entrepreneur
"The Testament of a Furniture Dealer" http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/pdf/reports-downloads/the-testament-of-a-furniture-dealer.pdf (1976).