You discover who you are by making mistakes.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.