Best mistake & errors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.”

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.”

Thinking Two Sex Mistake Connections Errors

Author:Quentin Crisp

“We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.”

Ifs Mind Doe Art Reading Mistake Virtue Judging Demand Perception Errors Critics Worth Reading

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led it into misfortune. These are all the more difficult to rectify, because in the main they have been made by the authorities, who will not commit suicide themselves, but in order to save their own skins, they would rather that all Life should perish before they acknowledge their errors.”

Source: The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry: Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series

“I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!”

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.”

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Author:Nikki Giovanni

“It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.”

Should Mistake Benefits Errors Harm

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.”

Men Kind Made Poor Mistake Errors Ancient Conclusion Abandonment Premature Approximation

Book:A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

Source: A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

“The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.”

Ifs Mean Truth Science Process Freedom Mistake Scientist Function Errors Core Fraud

Author:Robert Pollack

“Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.”

Mistake Friends Relation Errors Dear Commit Shelves Spouse Dear Friend Quaint

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”

Giving May Truth Values Mistake Positive Thinking Encouragement Errors Subtle Inquiry Great Value

Author:Isaac Asimov

“One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.”

World Made Mistake Rose Errors Covered Discovering Cottages

Author:Juanita M. Kreps

“He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.”

Men Long States Earth Heaven Mistake Teach Perfection Errors Saint Theology Divinity Nothing New

Author:Frances Osborne

“A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.”

Mistake Errors Bureaucracy Cardinals Cardinal Rules

Author:Colin Greenwood

“Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.”

Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

“Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.”

People Mistake Teach Errors Bricklaying

Author:William Faulkner

“The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.”

Success Mistake Masters Errors Planning Sequence Anticipate

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.”

Made Two Mistake Argument Errors

Book:St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts

Source: St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts

“I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way.”

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Author:Mishka

“Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.”

Feelings Might Age Lines Mistake Training Adults Wings Errors Trials Wheels Arbitrary Crossings Trial And Error Training Wheels

Author:Megan Crane

“I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Jobs Young Bits Mistake Training Errors Stuck Trials Hopefully Managers Chef Keep Trying Trial And Error Job Training

Author:April Bloomfield

“Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.”

Soul Mistake Sorrow Forgiveness Errors Prize Routes Strife

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don`t say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.”

Men Has Beens Done Might Young Mistake Amount Errors Ruins Young Man Might Have Been

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.”

Mistake Discipline Errors Moving On Learning From Mistakes Erring

Author:William Ellery Channing

“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.”

Men Truth Mistake Errors Prosperous

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes.”

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Book:A Short History Of Progress

Source: A Short History Of Progress

“Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.”

Giving Certain Mistake Judgment Errors Faults Visible

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author

“Failure is a few Errors in judgment repeated everyday. The man says, Well I didn't walk around the block today and it didn't kill me, so it must be okay. No, no, it is that kind of error in judgment that after six years has him out of breath and panting as he walks from his car to his office. You can't make those kinds of mistakes; it will end up costing you.”