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Quotes about Mistakes


Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

John Ruskin

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Rabindranath Tagore

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying they made them.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Rabindranath Tagore

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

C.W. Leadbeater

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Josh Billings

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Gene Fowler

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

William Feather

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Steve Jobs

The mistakes are all waiting to be made.

Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

Feast of All Saints He took upon Him the flesh in which we have sinned, that by wearing our flesh He might forgive sins; a flesh which He shares with us by wearing it, not by sinning in it. He blotted out through death the sentence of death, that by a new creation of our race in Himself He might sweep away the penalty appointed by the former Law... For Scripture had foretold that He who is God should die; that the victory and triumph of them that trust in Him lay in the fact that He, who is immortal and cannot be overcome by death, was to die that mortals might gain eternity. (Continued tomorrow) ... St. Hilary, On the Trinity November 2, 2000 Feast of All Souls In this calm assurance of safety did my soul gladly and hopefully take its rest, and feared so little the interruption of death, that death seemed only a name for eternal life. And the life of this present body was so far from seeming a burden or affliction that it was regarded as children regard their alphabets, sick men their draughts, shipwrecked sailors their swim, young men the training for their profession, future commanders their first campaign—that is, as an endurable submission to present necessities, bearing the promise of a blissful immortality. ... St. Hilary, On the Trinity November 3, 2000 Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639 People make mistakes when they believe. They may even want something so badly that passion creates its own evidences. Reprehensible though these habits are, they nonetheless fall within the pale of man's general effort to conform the self to things as they are. But when a person acknowledges the deficiency of evidences and yet goes right on believing, he defends a position that is large with the elements of its own destruction. Any brand of inanity can be defended on such a principle.

Edward John Carnell

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Edward Phelps

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Latin Antisthenes

A computer is almost human - except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer.

Unknown

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

General Omar Bradley

I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew.

Janet Minor

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