Quotes on Great Mistakes

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

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.

We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing the good, the true and the beautiful. But it would be a great mistake to ignore where we have come from in our attempt to determine where we are going.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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

It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.