Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.