Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Mistakes

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Business, Mistake, Political

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, 1924.

• Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Wine, Alcohol

• Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Morning, Pain, Mistake

• Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Fads, Noble

• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Men, Inferiority

  "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1906.

• There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Errors, Important

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, April 25, 1931.

• It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pain, Mistake, Two

• Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Ideas, Nine

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