Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

About Confucius

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Confucius (c. 551 – c. 479 BCE), born Kong Qiu, was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Much of the shared cultural heritage of the Sinosphere originates in the philosophy and teachings of Confucius. His philosophical teachings, called...

More quotations from Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

More quotations tagged with “mistakes”

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

—Cato the Elder

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

—Benjamin Disraeli

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

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11 Jul 2015 Added