Quotes about Mistake

orr we find a typo in a book.

Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the mistake we describe metaphorically as "biting off more than they can chew.

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

My business is to take care of life, and to do the best I can think of for it. Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

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.

A mistake would have been fatal. -Sherlock Holmes-

It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the

Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it.

For neither love, nor the "unction of the Holy One," makes us infallible: therefore, through unavoidable defect of understanding, we cannot but mistake in many things.