There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.