1,800 Quotes About Mistake

People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.

It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

We've recognized that this is a mistake, and this is a mistake we regret,

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

I've made some mistakes before.

I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that`s it.

There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.