Explore Quotes on Mistake

Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

We have had triumphs, we have made mistakes, we have had sex.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Li£e continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.

The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves.

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.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

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.

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.