Quotes on Great Mistakes

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.