Mistake Quotes (page 32)
![Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is..."](/pic/330902/600x316/quotation-lucius-annaeus-seneca-errare-humanum-est-sed-perseverare.jpg)
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.
George Orwell
![Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I..."](/pic/330580/600x316/quotation-ralph-waldo-emerson-let-me-never-fall-into-the-vulgar-mistake.jpg)
If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True, you may say that, by exceeding caution, you may possibly escape these and the multitudinous other evil chances of life. But handle Queequeg's monkey-rope heedfully as I would, sometimes he jerked it so, that I came very near sliding overboard. Nor could I possibly forget that, do what I would, I only had the management of one end of it.
Herman Melville
![William James quote: "Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we..."](/pic/329016/600x316/quotation-william-james-whatever-is-beyond-this-narrow-rational.jpg)