Famous Mistake Quotes
Delay is preferable to error.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
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.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
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.
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.
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.
You should learn from your mistakes rather than repeating them.
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.
