Quotes about Mistake

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Sorry solves nothing.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

It's fine to experience regret when we abandon a sunk cost. It's a mistake to stick with one simply because we can't bear the regret.

orr we find a typo in a book.

Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the mistake we describe metaphorically as "biting off more than they can chew.

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

My business is to take care of life, and to do the best I can think of for it. Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.