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Quotes About Mistake

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
~ Coco Chanel
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
~ Roy H. Williams
My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.
~ Olivia Newton-John
Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
~ Nick Clooney
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
~ Publilius Syrus
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
~ Erica Jong
As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
~ Jane Byrne
Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.
~ Anton Chekhov
the common saying has it, we think that man "lives to eat" and not "eats to live". We are continually making this mistake; we are regarding nature as ourselves and are becoming attached to it; and as soon as this attachment comes, there is the deep impression on the soul, which binds us down and makes us work not from freedom but like slaves.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We expect you to spill the milk, but it's really how you clean it up that matters.
~ Sylvia Browne
I have done it again.
~ Sylvia Plath
Members of the ruling class are unwilling to admit themselves mistaken.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
~ T. H. Huxley
Why am I here?" You may have asked the question as you found yourself in the midst of an amazing, divinely orchestrated opportunity, or you may have asked it in reaction to having made the worst mistake of your life.
~ T.D. Jakes
Thousands of years from now they will use my fossil remains as an example of a mistake in the evolutionary process
~ Tao Lin
This is the profound meaning of at-tawbah, offered to everyone: sincerely returning to God after a slip, a mistake, a sin. God loves that sincere return to Him and He forgives and purifies. The
~ Tariq Ramadan
Well I found that picture Of you in that green dress. Sure had a good time Cleanin' up that mess. He found thirty other pieces, But he'll never find them all. Tried to tape them back together. Now he knows to keep them off the wall!
~ Taylor Swift
One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.
~ Michael Sandel
Ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program was a serious mistake that will harm the United States and will spark a national political crisis.
~ Luis Gutierrez
Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.
~ Mark Goulston
Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often, a part of the mistake is too much leverage.
~ Wilbur Ross
Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.
~ Cecilia Bartoli
My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.
~ Kevin O'Leary