Mistake Quotes - page 5

The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values. (Carroll Quigley)
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. View quote
Milan Kundera
Woman was God's second mistake. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight. View quote
Colum McCann
Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right. View quote
Ronald Reagan
My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
My business savvy it's instinct. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong. View quote
Tamara Mellon
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. View quote
Phyllis Diller
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same ways. View quote
Howard Gardner
Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. (Henning Mankell)
I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake. View quote
Bethenny Frankel
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. View quote
Emmet Fox
Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin? View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her. View quote
Lionel Shriver
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake. View quote
Lisa See
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. View quote
Doug Larson
I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving. View quote
Lisa Kudrow
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake. (Alain Prost)
In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again. View quote
Bobby Sherman
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. View quote
Orlando Aloysius Battista
I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake. View quote
Patty Hearst
I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me. View quote
Rafael Palmeiro