Quotes about mistakes

"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on mistakes
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"There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater."

Aragon, Louis on mistakes   

"Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness."

Augsburger, David on mistakes
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"There is no original truth, only original error."

Bachelard, Gaston on mistakes
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"I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

Bankhead, Tallulah on mistakes
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"If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

Bankhead, Tallulah on mistakes
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"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."

Battista, Orlando A. on mistakes
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"All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do."

Bennett, Arnold on mistakes
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"I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one."

Bennett, James Gordon on mistakes
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"I made a wrong mistake"

Berra, Yogi on mistakes
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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake..."

Boswell, Nelson on mistakes
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"It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn."

Bradshaw, John on mistakes
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"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on mistakes
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"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

Buck, Pearl S. on mistakes   

"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas."

Burnett, Leo on mistakes   

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

Carnegie, Dale on mistakes
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"Error is discipline through which we advance."

Channing, William Ellery on mistakes
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"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."

Churchill, Winston on mistakes
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"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."

Cicero, Marcus T. on mistakes
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately."

Covey, Stephen R. on mistakes
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"There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate."

Croesus on mistakes   

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."

Cromwell, Oliver on mistakes   

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"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."

Dali, Salvador on mistakes   

"It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it."

Daly, Chuck on mistakes   

"I love fools experiments. I am always making them."

Darwin, Charles R. on mistakes   

"Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation."

Daumal, Rene on mistakes   

"Do not fear mistakes -- there are none."

Davis, Miles on mistakes
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"I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes."

Davy, Sir Humphrey on mistakes
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on mistakes   

"The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try."

Drucker, Peter F. on mistakes
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"Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth."

Eddy, Mary Baker on mistakes   

"Truth is immortal; error is mortal."

Eddy, Mary Baker on mistakes   

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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Einstein, Albert on mistakes
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"Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies."

Eliot, George on mistakes   

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"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

Ford, Henry on mistakes
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"It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake."

Fouche, Joseph on mistakes   

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"When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first."

Franklin, Benjamin on mistakes   

"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."

Fuller, Buckminster on mistakes   

"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed"

Gates, Bill on mistakes
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