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Mistakes Quotes (page 13)

I have no data yet. It's a a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Arthur Conan Doyle
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong. Herman Wouk
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming. Oscar Wilde
He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same. Anton Chekhov
Charles M. Schulz quote: "It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in..."
It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it... Charles M. Schulz
The point is, if we find out you’ve been horrible to Harry —” “— and make no mistake, we’ll hear about it. “even if you won’t let Harry use the fellytone —” “Telephone J. K. Rowling
Will Durant quote: "Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what..."
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day Will Durant
Fernando Pessoa quote: "To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a..."
To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. Fernando Pessoa
In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle. Catherine Drinker Bowen
Werner Herzog quote: "Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create..."
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination. Werner Herzog
Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the prcis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact. C. S. Lewis
Steven Brust quote: "One man's mistake is another man's opportunity."
One man's mistake is another man's opportunity. Steven Brust
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West
With small nose, gross thighs, and those back-bent smoke-dyed fingers, he obliged me with this explanation, and he thought to have more effect on me than he really ever could have. When I didn't argue he was satisfied that he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake. Saul Bellow
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal. Carl Sagan

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