Failure Quote by James Joyce

Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything

— William Magee

The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man…

— Charles Mackay

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

— Frederick The Great

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

— Mary MacLane

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

— E. V. Lucas

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

— Aristotle

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

— Edward Phelps

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

— Henry David Thoreau