Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone’s sake.”Vittoria was amazed at Kohler’s ability to weigh moral issues with scientific detachment. His intellect seemed to be the product of an icy divorce from his inner spirit. “You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.

All sins cast long shadows.

Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

Too much talk will include errors.

What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken.

Men are men they needs must err.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day like those of a baseball player.

It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.