1,800 Quotes About Mistake

  • Author John Steinbeck
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    Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

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  • Author Jonathan Swift
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    Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

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  • Author José Saramago
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    I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

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  • Author José Saramago
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    There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

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  • Author Jonathan Swift
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    It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

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  • Author Kathryn Schulz
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    Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. "...The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes.

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  • Author Kelly Stables
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    I've learned that nobody is either all good or all evil. We all make mistakes, but we all are also capable of accomplishing extraordinary things.

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  • Author Kevin Spacey
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    Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

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