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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.
A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.
Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.
Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.
Error is discipline through which we advance.
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.
I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
I made a wrong mistake
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.
It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.
It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.
Life would be dull without them.
Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.
Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Mistakes are stepping stones to success.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.