To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Interpretation
It is impossible for humans to avoid making mistakes, but those who learn from them gain wisdom.
This quote by Plutarch emphasizes the inevitability of human error and the importance of learning from our mistakes. It suggests that rather than striving for perfection, we should focus on the lessons we can derive from our failures, as this is where true wisdom and growth are cultivated.
In practice
A motivational speaker reflecting on personal growth during a seminar.
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Come back with your shield - or on it
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.
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