Famous Mistake Quotes
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
You should learn from your mistakes rather than repeating them.
Delay is preferable to error.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
A very popular error: having the courage of one’s convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one’s convictions.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
