Mistakes -- A Handful of Observations

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (January 11, 2007)

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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After it is all over, as stupid a fellow as I am can see that mistakes were made. I notice, however, that my mistakes are never told me until it is too late.

General Robert E Lee

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

John Powell

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

John Ruskin, Modern Painters (1856)

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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde, Lad Windemere's Fan

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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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To err is human.

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The butler who folds his hands spills no tea.