Quotes with mistake

Quotes 141 till 160 of 169.

  • Adam Osborne The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • John Major The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
    John Major
    British politician (1943 - )
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  • Umberto Eco The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
    Travels in Hyperreality (2014) 133
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Mme de Stael The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Ezra Pound The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alan Dershowitz The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Aldous Huxley There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • James Baldwin True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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  • Anthony Weiner We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Lewis Lehr We can afford almost any mistake once.
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  • Samuel Smiles We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Samuel Smiles We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Bono What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.
    Acceptance speech at the MTV Europe Music Awards, referring to French nuclear testing in Pacific (1995)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • W. H. Auden When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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