Mistake Quotes - Page 39

• Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

  Thomas Malory

  Long, Wit, Wells

  Sir Thomas Malory (1968). “King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales”

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• The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

  Freya Stark

  Belief, Fear Of Failure, Static

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Hedgehogs, Said, Brushes

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• We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.

  Felix Sabates

  Happened

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• No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

  Thomas Huxley

  Clever, People, Causes

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.70, Cambridge University Press

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• Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Thought Provoking, Honest, Enough

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• The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Good Things, Knows, Cringe

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• Life is not life unless you make mistakes

  Joan Collins

  Inspirational, Making Mistakes, Life Is

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• Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

  Bill Maher

  Past, Order, Wiser

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• When we make mistakes they call it evil

  Bill Maher

  Evil, Making Mistakes, We Make Mistakes

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• But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Echoes, May, Gaps

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Writing, Two, Reform

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• Our mistakes don't make or break us - if we're lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we're really made of.

  Donn Moomaw

  Make Or Break, Lucky, American Football

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• We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Discovery, Watches, There Is Hope

  Arthur Quiller-Couch (2016). “On The Art of Reading”, p.8, Youcanprint

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• The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Able, Firsts, Thousand

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

  Honore de Balzac

  Spring, Errors

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• Mistakes are their own instructors

  Horace

  Instructors

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• Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Facts, Knows

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.66, Routledge

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• Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Giving, Laughing

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• Falsehood falsehood cures

  William Shakespeare

  Cures, Falsehood

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1169, Oxford University Press

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• You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

  Anne Lamott

  Badass, Women, Thinking

  "Becoming the Person You Were Meant to Be: Where to Start" by Anne Lamott, www.oprah.com.

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• The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Cat, Cutting

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Book by Alan Watts, 1966.

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• God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever breaking every equilibrium, forever searching for a higher one.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  God, Persistence, Agony

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• It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Design, Style, Pieces

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• ...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

  Tim Bray

  Stupid, Design, Dumb

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