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Quotes About Mistake

I came to America,' he said in 1947, 'because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.' At the time of his death, the FBI dossier on him had grown to thousands of pages. They contain no evidence that he was ever disloyal.
~ Anthony Summers
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
~ Anthony Trollope
I know they will murder him," she said, "and then when it is too late they will find out what they have done!
~ Anthony Trollope
When he woke the next morning, or rather late in the next day, after his night's work, he was no longer able to tell himself that the world was all right with him. Who does not know that sudden thoughtfulness at waking, that first matutinal retrospection, and prospection, into things as they have been and are to be; and the lowness of heart, the blankness of hope which follows the first remembrance of some folly lately done, some word ill-spoken, some money misspent, —
~ Anthony Trollope
Miss Trefoil must have thought that kissing and proposing were the same thing. Other young ladies have, perhaps, before now made such a mistake. But this young lady had had much experience, and should have known better.
~ Anthony Trollope
Perhaps the German leadership's greatest mistake in the Ardennes offensive was to have misjudged the soldiers of an army they had affected to despise.
~ Antony Beevor
Obrar por ignorancia y obrar con ignorancia no son lo mísmo.
~ Aristóteles
Hal's internal fault predictor could have made a mistake." "It's more
~ Arthur C. Clarke
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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
I have no data yet. 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
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A mistake would have been fatal. -Sherlock Holmes-
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it, after all." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake in explaining.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. What do you deduce from it?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
La última vez que había cometido ese error con una mujer le había costado el alma.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
~ Sigmund Freud