The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man,… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Sociologically, I think it is the most important thing going on in the world today. Because you can't change people by force.… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of… — George Inness Copy Share Image
It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee,… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them,… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
