Mistake Quotes

5262 Mistake quotes by 3176 unique authors

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. — Lydia M. Child
Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the… — Joyce Carol Oates
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again… — R. Buckminster Fuller
You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues. — Wallace D. Wattles
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. — Ingvar Kamprad
There is no mistake in nature. — Byron Katie
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand… — Samuel Adams
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise… — Alexander McQueen
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only… — Samuel Johnson
This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the… — Steve Perry
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute… — Werner Heisenberg
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Man is nature's sole mistake. — W. S. Gilbert
Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which… — Carlos Castaneda
Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes. — Wallace D. Wattles
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a… — Mark Twain
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. — Fletcher Knebel
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is… — Oprah Winfrey
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead… — Warren W. Wiersbe
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not… — Adolf Hitler
[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake — H. L. Mencken

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