We made too many wrong mistakes. [ Yogi Berra ]

By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn. [ Proverb ]

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. [ James A. Froude ]

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. [ Ruskin ]

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

There will be mistakes in divinity while men preach, and errors in governments while men govern. [ Sir Dudley Carlton ]

The mistakes of woman result almost always from her faith in the good, and her confidence in the truth. [ Balzac ]

The term of man's life is half wasted before he has done with his mistakes and begins to profit by his lessons. [ Jane Taylor ]

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. [ Froude ]

The astrologer who spells, the stars, mistakes his globes, and in her bright eye interprets heaven's physiognomies. [ John Cleaveland ]

All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth. [ Shelley ]

It is from our enemies chat we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes. [ Thomas Paine ]

Experience is of no ethical value, it is simply the name we give our mistakes. It demonstrates that the future will be the same as the past. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy. [ Beaconsfield ]

I believe that everyone, sometime or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another. [ Addison ]

Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications. [ Colton ]