Famous Mistake Quotes
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
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.
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
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.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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.
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
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.
Delay is preferable to error.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
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.