Quotes About Mistake

It's not an intellectual mistake.

He who is foolish finds disaster

But a man cannot remain indifferent to the world around him; it worries him and torments him to think that he could be happier somewhere else, and that he is where he is simply through a mistake of fate

The mark of a wise man is that he changes his mind when he sees mistake.

Okay, okay," said Elliott. "I was wrong. Sorry, Katherine." "That's okay," said Katherine. "She stole your sandwich, too.

Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience!

We can analyze what went wrong and discuss our own responsibility or lack thereof in private, but shouting that we are responsible out here, where that angry mob out front can hear us? That's a very bad idea.

Business is but a means. To forget this, and to live for it and in it, as an end, is a cardinal and pernicious mistake, to which much of the want of elevation in the mercantile character is to be ascribed.

It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows." She chuckled, "The more fool you!

I knew before marriage to Henrietta Collyer that she and I should never have come together, but a young man's sense of honor, so often mistaken, misplaced as medieval chivalry, prevented me from making the break.

St Michael's RC secondary sat on a promontory overlooking the town of Auchenlea. The choice of site was an indirect consequence of a past mistake in vocational guidance, leading someone who had a pathological hatred of children into town planning, rather than the more traditional field of teaching.

She drove a hundred yards or so at this tentative pace before Nuno calmly reminded her she ought to be on the right.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

Perhaps, after all, the most beautiful words in the language are I'm sorry.

Big fucking mistake man. You can't be near her. Don't you get it? [...] She's part of this city. Do you see? I mean, really part of it. You hurt her, you - hurt all of this.

You can't undo actions with words.

If you were the first of three siblings, then you were going to make a big mistake, and that was that.

2What you think you are is a belief to be undone, but what you really are must be revealed to you. 3The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake.

And you police officers! Can't even tell the difference between girls and boys.

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.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.