mistake quotes

• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein) [mistake]
• Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl. (Stephen Leacock) [love/mistake]
• Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. (Henry Ford) [mistake/thing]
• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [capital/mistake]
• A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Douglas Adams) [mistake/people/design]
• I made a wrong mistake (Yogi Berra) [mistake]
• In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. ( Napoleon I) [politics/mistake]
• From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. (Samuel Butler) [worldly/point/mistake/being]
• It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. (Winston Churchill) [mistake/look/time]
• Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. (Charles Caleb Colton) [mistake/power/wealth/power]
• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein) [mistake]
• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. (George Eliot) [mistake]
• Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [mistake]
• Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [society/mistake/thing]
• Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. (Henry Ford) [mistake/thing]
• It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake. (Joseph Fouche) [crime/mistake]
• The first mistake in public business is going into it. (Benjamin Franklin) [mistake/business]
• Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin. (Germaine Greer) [mistake/women/politics/state]
• The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me. (George Harrison) [life/people/mistake]
• I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare. (Vladimir Horowitz) [take/mistake/willpower/mistake]
• I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. (Henry Kissinger) [being/mistake]
• The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. (Milan Kundera) [basis/shame/mistake/humiliation]
• The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. (John Major) [mistake/decision]
• It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. (H. L. Mencken) [sin/evil/mistake]
• Without music, life would be a mistake. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [music/life/mistake]
• Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. (Cesare Pavese) [mistake/willpower/find/right]
• The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. (Ezra Pound) [mistake]
• Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. (Bertrand Russell) [mistake/thinking/women/men]
• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. (Samuel Smiles) [mistake/men]
• 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. (Samuel Smiles) [willpower/willpower/mistake]
• He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. (Samuel Smiles) [mistake]

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