| No One Is Perfect and We All Make Mistakes; Quotations about Mistakes | |
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927 Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ~Sophia Loren It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. ~Ornette Coleman I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. ~John Peel Never say, "oops." Always say, "Ah, interesting." ~Author unknown If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. ~F. Wikzek Of all the blunders that blundering critics ever blundered upon, surely this is the greatest. ~"Aristarchus" of Oxford, letter to editor of The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, 1804 April 2nd While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ~Henry C. Link An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. ~Niels Bohr A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies That's not serious, it's just human. ~The amazingly brilliant, generous, and kind-hearted Mr Jerry Kopke, said to his students, c.1980s The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ~John Powell The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. ~Edward Phelps Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. ~Weston H. Agor Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. ~Eli Siegel Error is not always the result of a want of education, but often a lack of power to comprehend the truth. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882 One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense. ~Henry David Thoreau You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ~Colette Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas. ~Alfonso de Cartagena As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. ~Mel Brooks Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties. ~Author Unknown When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature! ~Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ~Author Unknown Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. ~Henry S. Haskins Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. ~Martin F. Tupper When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. ~Dan Heist Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ~Phyllis Theroux, Night Lights The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes. ~Aubrey Menen If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916 A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ~James Joyce, Ulysses Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one. ~Author Unknown Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. ~Francis Bacon Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. ~Andrew V. Mason 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. ~Sydney Smith |
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