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QUOTES including the word: "mistake"

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. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mary-wollstonecraft-quotes

  • 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.