1,800 Quotes About Mistake

I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms.

I acknowledge that we are all human and are on a journey. We are not born perfect, mistakes are inevitable.

You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error

The biggest mistake Barack Obama could have made is to change quite a few things in his Afghanistan policy. He increased the number of troops and at the same time set the US withdrawal date to 2014. Now the United States has to ensure that Afghanistan does not immediately collapse after being left to itself in 2014.

For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.

It [success] is really by mistake.

It was a mistake of mine to tell the lads that this lot don't score too many goals - and statistically they don't - but then they go and score seven.