Mistake Quotes - page 12

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. (Eckhart Tolle)
The fundamental mistake I had always made-and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make-was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. View quote
John Green (author)
Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake. View quote
Ernest Gaines
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
The economic and technological achievements of industrialization in this period were fundamentally mistaken. ...based upon plundering the natural capital of the globe that was created over millions of years: the plundering of the soils and their fertility; the plundering of human communities whether they were our own or someone else's. View quote
Carroll Quigley
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. View quote
Toni Morrison
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God. View quote
Mark Twain
After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. View quote
Mark Twain
It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge. (Margaret Thatcher)
I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake ... But you know, I'm not going to. I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point. View quote
Barack Obama
When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right. View quote
Ward Cunningham
It began as a mistake. View quote
Charles Bukowski
But if the U. S. were to leave and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united and sovereign country, that would definitely be a second mistake. View quote
Vladimir Putin
The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God. View quote
Edward Everett Hale
In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young. View quote
Walt Disney
Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more. View quote
Michael Faraday
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. View quote
Henry Ford
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. (René Descartes)
I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all. View quote
Quentin Crisp
America is a mistake, a giant mistake. View quote
Sigmund Freud
America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken. View quote
Roald Amundsen