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Quotes about Mistake

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Love leads to misery. Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. Remember that woman's mistake, the pain.
- Frank Herbert
I'll pay for my own mistake." "And your son will pay with you." "I'll shield him as well as I'm able." "Shield!" the old woman snapped. "You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.
- Frank Herbert
Oh, I don't imply that I've made my father's mistake and peered into the future with a glass of spice.
- Frank Herbert
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
- Samuel Johnson
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
- John Maxwell
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
- Bob Goff
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
- Oscar Wilde
The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay.
- Edith Wharton
Once—twice—you gave me the chance to escape from my life, and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward. Afterward I saw my mistake—I saw I could never be happy with what had contented me before. But it was too late: you had judged me—I understood. It was too late for happiness—but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I have lived on—don't take it from me now!
- Edith Wharton
a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein