Mistake

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When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.

The Zurau Aphorisms (2)
Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

Sputnik Sweetheart
As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.

Kafka on the Shore
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it
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