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Quotes About Mistake

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
~ Samuel Smiles
There is always a suspicion...that one is living a lie or a mistake; that something crucially important has been overlooked, missed, neglected, left untried, and unexplored; that a vital obligation to one's own authentic self has not been met or that some chances of unknown happiness completely different from any happiness experienced before have to been taken up in time and are bound to be lost forever if they continue to be neglected.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from—will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?
~ Abraham Lincoln
I do listen fairly well, though, a talent people often mistake for trustworthiness.
~ Adam Langer
Even when you were completely wrong about something, the journey into your wrongness was always fucking interesting.
~ Adrian McKinty
Concetta is being duped. But you should never look down on someone for trusting the wrong person. It could happen to any of us.
~ Adriana Trigiani
False confidence often leads to disaster.
~ Aesop
Some readers might think that because I am so successful, I have never made a mistake.
~ Al Franken
My mistake was to confuse a destiny to love with a destiny to love a specific person. It was the error of thinking that Chloe, rather than love, was inevitable.
~ Alain de Botton
A sign in a pottery store in England announced, "Please let us know if you break any item, so we can forgive you.
~ Alan Cohen
To err is human; to really screw up, you need a computer
~ Alan Cooper
Tut! They were justified in their feelings, if not the extremity of their reaction." He winked with his unglassed eye. "I was doubtless guilty of some indelicate prestidigitation of the dice. My mistake was that I was found out. "If they had actually caught and killed me, of course, I would have been somewhat more upset.
~ Alan Dean Foster
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.
~ Alan Jacobs
Ladies and gentleman! You've read about it in the newspapers! Now, shudder as you observe, before your very eyes, that most rare and tragic of nature's mistakes! I give you...the average man!!
~ Alan Moore
sometimes an action we think is right turns out to be wrong.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
At the root of all human tragedy is human folly.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
I don't mess around with the men in the coven, especially my Shadowblades," she said with quiet finality. Flirting was one thing but anything more, it was a mistake of epic proportions. His eyes narrowed and he gave a slow shake of his head. "That is all right then. Because I want so much more than just to mess around.
~ Diana Pharaoh Francis
Yet there is no acceptance to be found in my heart. This death is unfair. Ignoble, and not justifiable by any measure of rationale. No battle is worth this. No ideals, no political cause, and no bounty. Being here is a mistake. Dying is a mistake. Twenty-two years has not been enough. "--Luke, a Civil War soldier
~ Diane Ryan
How does a blind man say he was wrong? I thought you were lost, but you were never lost to God.
~ DiAnn Mills
Nothing expresses remorse better than silence.
~ Dianne Marie Teresa Cole
Den größten Fehler, den man im Leben machen kann, ist, immer Angst zu haben, einen Fehler zu machen.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is no fulfilment of the law apart from communion with God, and no communion with God apart from fulfilment of the law. To forget the first condition was the mistake of the Jews, and to forget the second the temptation of the disciples.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Znam, i zlo?in se lakše priznaje od zablude. Inteligentnom ?oveku najteže je da prizna zabludu. Me?utim,samo od njega to se i može o?ekivati.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
~ Dominic Cooper