Attitude Quote by Mark Twain

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

— Dale E. Turner

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

— Martin Luther

Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

— Bill Maher

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of…

— Anonymous

Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes.The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

— Dale Turner

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

— Charles Mackay

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

— Anonymous

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by…

— Frank Herbert

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

— Terry Hands

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

— Paul Fussell

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

— Russell D. Moore