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| Mistakes:
The Philosophical |
Day |
The Philosophical Side |
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A computer isn't smart enough
to make a
mistake. Computers are dumb. Fast
and efficient and dumb. No computer ever had an idea.
-- Unknown |
2 |
A life spent making mistakes
is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
--George Bernard Shaw |
3 |
A mistake
is simply another way of doing things.
--Katharine Graham |
4 |
Allowing an unimportant mistake
to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.
--Judith Martin |
5 |
Anyone can make a mistake.
A fool insists on repeating it.
--Robertine Maynard |
6 |
Be cautious, but not too cautious;
do not be too much afraid of making a mistake;
a man who never makes a mistake will make
nothing.
--John Lubbock |
7 |
Half our mistakes
in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where
we ought to feel.
--John Churton Collins |
8 |
I have learned throughout my
life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes
and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom
and knowledge.
--Igor Stravinsky |
9 |
I must tell you I take terrible
risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make amistake
you hear it. Never be afraid to dare.
--Vladimir Horowitz |
10 |
If I had my life to live over,
I would try to make more mistakes. I would
relax. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would pick
more daisies. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones.
--Don Herold |
11 |
If it is a mistake
of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
--Earl Warren |
12 |
If only we could have two lives:
the first in which to make one's mistakes,
which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit
by them.
--D. H. Lawrence |
13 |
Intelligence is not to make no
mistakes,
but quickly to see how to make them good.
--Bertolt Brecht |
14 |
It is a mistake
to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed
through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have
taught them so well as failure has done.
--Samuel Smiles |
15 |
It is easy to forgive others
their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive
them for having witnessed your own.
--Jessamyn West |
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It is just as damaging to think
you are superior as it is to think you are inferior. People who think they
are superior often find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn from
others or to profit from their own mistakes.
--Allen Fay |
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It is only those who never do
anything who never make mistakes.
--A. Favre |
18 |
It isn't making mistakes
that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal
task.
--Donald Rumsfeld |
19 |
Learn from the mistakes
of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
--Martin Vanbee |
20 |
Make sure you generate a reasonable
number of mistakes.
--Fletcher Byrom |
21 |
Many times the best way, in fact
the only way, to learn is through mistakes.
A fear of making mistakes can bring individuals
to a standstill, to a dead center. Fear is the wicked wand that transforms
human beings into vegetables.
--George Brown |
22 |
Never mistake
motion for action.
--Ernest Hemingway |
23 |
The greatest mistake
you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
--Elbert Hubbard |
24 |
The man who makes no mistakes
does not usually make anything.
--Edward John Phelps |
25 |
There is glory in a great mistake.
--Nathalia Crane |
26 |
To make mistakes
is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is
maturity.
--William A. Ward |
27 |
We often discover what will do,
by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake
never made a discovery.
--Samuel Smiles |
28 |
When I was young I was sure of
everything; in a few years, having been mistaken
a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before;
at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.
--John Wesley |
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--Oscar Wilde |
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--Salvador Dali |
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It is the response to error that counts. --Nikki Giovanni |
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