Mistakes

"Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake."

"Lack of recent information is responsible for more mistakes of judgment than erroneous reasoning."

"Every person do mistake every day, otherwise, if you deny the mistakes, we deny the human nature of the people..."

"An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field."

"If you have ever, like me, Missed the "r" and hit the "t", Addressing some fat blister As "Mt." instead of "Mr.", I trust you left it unamended? Splendid."

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

"The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher."

"You seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time."

"Don't make the same mistake twice seems to indicate three mistakes, doesn't it? First you make the mistake. Then you make the same mistake. Then you make the same mistake twice. If you simply say, "Don't make the same mistake," you'll avoid the first mistake."

"No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying."

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and . The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."

"A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes."

"When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way."

"主忠信。毋友不如己者。過，則勿憚改。"

"Let go the lure The striving to unmake;Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake."

"Other kings let their ministers make their mistakes for them, but Louis insisted on making the important mistakes personally."

"Hell, that's why they make erasers."

"For my errors loom over my head;"

"If errors were what you watch, O Jah,"

"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data."

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."

"Amerika ist ein Fehler, zugegeben ein gigantischer Fehler, aber nichtsdestotrotz ein Fehler."

"In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver."

"The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, a decline in collective enthusiasm is reflected by a resulting quantitative decrease of the contribution of each individual, each of the elements forming the whole of the masses. Work is so paralysed that insignificant quantities are produced. It is time to make a correction."

"My heartache, is my mistake you see."

"Everyone thinks I'm a smart arse who can solve any bloody problem. I'm not. I'm just a very old businessman and a very experienced businessman who made every mistake in the book and can recognise one when I see one."

"The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err, and err, and err again. But less, and less, and less."

"No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it."

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

"She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities."

"Mistakes are the inevitable lot of mankind."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery."

"Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right."

"Every irregularity is not erroneous."

"Some people use up valuable time by endlessly weighing pros and cons for fear of taking a wrong step. Making “mistakes” can be a great time-saver. You find out what works by trying. You get rid of unrealistic goals by having tried and failed to accomplish them. For the rest of your life you might have continued to cherish the dream of writing poetry. But now that you’ve spent several evenings working steadily at it, you can assure yourself that given your personality, poetry is impossible—at least for the present. Forget it and find a more realistic goal instead. What may seem defeating at first is really constructive: You’re building bridges that will eventually take you closer to where you really want to be."

"After it is all over, as stupid a fellow as I am can see that mistakes were made. I notice, however, that my mistakes are never told me until it is too late."

"We do not have to live the same mistakes over again if we can look at them, learn from them, and build upon them."

"Gli spropositi Presto si fanno, ma poi spesso costano Il pentimento di tutta la vita."

"Any military commander who is honest with himself, or with those he's speaking to, will admit that he has made mistakes in the application of military power. He's killed people unnecessarily — his own troops or other troops — through mistakes, through errors of judgment. A hundred, or thousands, or tens of thousands, maybe even a hundred thousand. But, he hasn't destroyed nations. And the conventional wisdom is don't make the same mistake twice, learn from your mistakes. And we all do. Maybe we make the same mistake three times, but hopefully not four or five. There will be no learning period with nuclear weapons. You make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations."

"Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all — they are attempting nothing new."

"The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake."

"It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing."

"The mistakes that have been most extreme in Berkshire's history are mistakes of omission. They don't show up in our figures — they show up in opportunity costs."

"First mistake, last mistake! Paid by the alliance, to slay all the giants! Next mistake, no more mistakes!"

"You have to ask yourself, What do I really want to do or be? Then make yourself this promise: I will not look over my shoulder; I will use whatever I have learned, but I will not dwell on the mistakes I have made. Whether you're seventeen, twenty-seven or sixty-seven, you bring experience to your new venture or adventure. If you draw from your own experience and use it as a guide, focus on today and not yesterday, your chances of success are greatly improved."

"Unsere Fehler sind die Fehler aller Menschen, die in den gleichen gesellschaftlichen und geschichtlichen Verhältnissen leben würden."

"A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. Then, again, every major change in policy demands a corresponding change of doctrine and a revelation of prominent historical figures."

"If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down."

"Mistakes are common, not because people or firms are incompetent but because they are constantly dancing on the edge of knowledge."

"Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last."

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

"When people once are in the wrong, Each line they add is much too long; Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way."

"The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does."

"And certainly it was not wrong to try to secure freedom for our citizens held in barbaric captivity. But we did not achieve what we wished, and serious mistakes were made in trying to do so. We will get to the bottom of this, and I will take whatever action is called for."

"Life, like war, is a series of mistakes; and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that; but he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes."

"There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory; but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory."

"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes."

"How far your eyes may pierce, I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well."

"Purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads."

"The error of our eye directs our mind: What error leads must err."

"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

"It is a sign of maturity and decency to acknowledge that often all parties participate in making mistakes that can produce discord. In our time, recognizing this fact is part of being an honest person of depth. It helps us understand that trouble between people gets transformed when everyone takes responsibility for their part. Negotiation is a process, first of acknowledgment, and then adjustment to the new information produced by that acknowledgment. Recognizing mutuality of cause is a principle that allows progressive change without . Scapegoating, after all, is often rooted in the false accusation that one person or group is unilaterally responsible for mistakes that are actually contributed to by multiple parties."

"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions — especially selfish ones."

"Those who do not blunder achieve nothing."

"There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake."

"The legendary Danish physicist Niels Bohr distinguished two kinds of truths. An ordinary truth is a statement whose opposite is a falsehood. A profound truth is a statement whose opposite is also a profound truth. In that spirit, we might say that an ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake."

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

"Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance."

"Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias, scio quam cum istis vera sentire."

"The cautious seldom err."

"Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd."

"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below."

"Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong."

"Es giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, weil sie sich nichts Vernünftiges vorsetzen."

"Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt."

"Ille sinistrorsum hic dextrorsum abit, unus utrique Error, sed variis illudit partibus."

"Dark Error's other hidden side is truth."

"Quand tout le monde a tort, tout le monde a raison."

"Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true."

"Errare humanus est."

"Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures."

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."

"In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion."

"Shall error in the round of time Still father Truth?"

"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error."

"There have been errors in the administration of the most enlightened men."

"A mistake, as it seems to me, is none the less a mistake because it is made deliberately in the pursuance of a mistaken intention."

"I know but of one Being to whom error may not be imputed."