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Mistakes Quotes (page 57)

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think? Alice Walker
Elbert Hubbard quote: "Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones..."
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day.... Edith Wharton
Jodi Picoult quote: "Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I..."
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up Jodi Picoult
W. H. Auden quote: "The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his..."
The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake; W. H. Auden
If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed Winston Churchill
It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...] An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn't French. And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals. David Sedaris
Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy. H. P. Lovecraft
Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback. David Baldacci
George Eliot, like Emily Dickinson and Blake, and like Shakespeare, rethought everything through for herself. She is the novelist as thinker (not as philosopher), and we frequently mistake her because we underestimate the cognitive strength she brings to her perspectivizings. Harold Bloom
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. ... It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. -Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
Thomas Wolfe quote: "Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on..."
Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up. Thomas Wolfe
As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when we try to judge ourselves. Now is the time to give reading a chance, for if you don't get the habit when you're young you may never get it. And if you don't get it, you may grow up to be just as dull as most adults are. Clifton Fadiman
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 ar no authorities; at most, there are experts. Carl Sagan
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes. Arthur Koestler

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