Mistake Quotes - page 3

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
... if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken. View quote
Bruce Schneier
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Making a mistake is also an achievement. View quote
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. View quote
Douglas Adams
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. View quote
Claude Debussy
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. View quote
Rahul Dravid
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. View quote
Romain Rolland
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. View quote
Erik Erikson
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. (Barack Obama)
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. View quote
Meister Eckhart
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. View quote
Ring Lardner
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. View quote
Josh Billings
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. View quote
Fred Allen
So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare. View quote
David Dinkins
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making. View quote
Cory Doctorow
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. View quote
Samuel Smiles
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. (Sam Rayburn)
I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess. View quote
Angelina Jolie
We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one. View quote
Cicero
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? View quote
Henry James
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. View quote
George Bernard Shaw