Quotes about Mistake

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

A kiss may ruin a human life

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

Man is a mistake. He must go.

I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read all that is printed. I count it a misfortune that serious books are exposed in the public market, like slaves exposed naked for sale. But there we are, since we live in an age of mistaken democracy, we must go through with it.

To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.

One could argue that the human intellect was the greatest mistake in evolution—a mistake that is now threatening all life on the planet.

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

LORD GORING: (after a long pause) Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.

The problem comes when we mistake the vessel for the treasure, for the treasure is the life and power of Jesus Christ.

What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.