The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

—John Powell

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

 —Niels Bohr

A mistake is not a failure. It is something that goes wrong… and then you fix it. You never fail until you stop trying.

—Suzie Heyman

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

—James Joyce

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.

—Mel Brooks

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

 —George Bernard Shaw

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t make them all yourself.

—Usher

I learn more from the one restaurant that didn’t work than from all the ones that were successes.

 —Wolfgang Puck

When I make a mistake, everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

 —Johann von Goethe

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

—Albert Einstein

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

 —Tallulah Bankhead