MISTAKES

Today, in my Japanese class I have learned a proverb:

猿も木から落ちる　Even monkeys fall from trees.

The implied meaning of this proverb is that anyone can make a mistake. It is often used to keep the arrogant or overconfident in check.

Lern how to say "Even monkeys fall from trees" in Japanese

Anyone can make mistakes. So, they have to learn to cope with and learn from them. James Joyce said that 'A man's errors are his portals of discovery'. So we have to look at the advantages of making mistakes.

Albert Einstein declared: 'Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new' and Winston Churchill considered that 'All man make mistakes but only wise men learn from their mistakes'.

I found this last quote from Winston Churchill especially accurate because mistakes can also be a source of knowledge if you are able to learn from them.