Quotes about Mistake
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".
— Henry Ford
My friends, I wish with all my heart that you do not make the same mistake. The next time you are suffering, if this suffering was caused by the person you love most in the world, have recourse to right action and say the fourth mantra: "Dear one, I am suffering deeply. I need you to help me to get out of this suffering. I need you to explain this to me." This is the language of true love.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
as soon as you think of yourself as teaching contemplation to others, you make another mistake. No one teaches contemplation except God, who gives it. The best you can do is write something that will serve as an occasion for someone else to realize what God wants of him.
— Thomas Merton
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
— CS Lewis
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
— George Eliot
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
— Anonymous
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
— St. Augustine
Maybe that was the key-just because she'd made a mistake with her life didn't mean that God did, and it hopefully didn't change the way God saw her.
— Susan May Warren
The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology - His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good - you can leave His ethical teaching intact.
— J. Gresham Machen
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
— Erica Jong
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
— Thomas Henry Huxley