“When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.”

“We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.”

“It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.”

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.”

“Good people don’t make fewer mistakes, they’re just better at apologizing.”

“When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.”

“Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes… It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.”

“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up”

“Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.”

“Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom.”