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Bismarck von Otto:Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Joseph Conrad:It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. Eino Leino:Oh, sensitive be to each other you should,
so hearts aren’t for rocks mistaken!
Cicero:Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Leon Trotsky:If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Mary Shelley:No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Pinto Andrade:I want to live among human people, very human. People, who can laugh at their mistakes. 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... Kropotkin:It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake. 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. Beckett:My mistakes are my life. Samuel Johnson:One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. Wollstonecraft:No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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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. 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.
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.”
Umberto Eco:The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Walt Whitman:“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.” Napoleon:“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
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. 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.
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. Oscar Wilde:Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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