Mistake Quotes

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

Never mistake motion for action.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes, be afraid of not even trying.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

It’s important to learn and not make the same mistakes, what’s done is done.

We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.