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Quotes including the word “mistake”.

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Pinto Andrade

I want to live among human people, very human. People, who can laugh at their mistakes.

Beckett

My mistakes are my life.

Amílcar Cabral

“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...

Cicero

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Joseph Conrad

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

Umberto Eco

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

van Gogh,Vincent

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Samuel Johnson

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Kropotkin

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.

Eino Leino

Oh, sensitive be to each other you should, so hearts aren’t for rocks mistaken!

Napoleon

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

Bismarck von Otto

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Plutarch

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Rolland

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Virginia Satir

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”

Mary Shelley

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Skinner

A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Leon Trotsky

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Jules Verne

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Walt Whitman

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”

Oscar Wilde

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Durant Will

It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment.

Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mary-wollstonecraft-quotes

Yourcenar

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.