Mistake Quotes

5262 Mistake quotes by 3176 unique authors

I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I… — Walter Hagen
The thing I was most proud of about today's round was that on this course everybody is going to make mistakes, but sometimes it's hard… — Phil Mickelson
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. — Charles Caleb Colton
Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what? — Jim Rohn
It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes. — Louise Hay
It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to… — Lucy Larcom
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. — Thomas A. Edison
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. — Thomas Carlyle
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. — Charles Caleb Colton
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. — Robert Louis Stevenson
It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. — Thorstein Veblen
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such… — Charles Caleb Colton
Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain… — Jonathan Swift
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. — J. G. Holland
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection. — Albert Pike
Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances… — Marcel Proust
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be… — John Ruskin
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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