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Mistake Quotes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
- Katharine Graham

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Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
- Wethern's Law

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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
- Confucius

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Design flaws travel in groups.
- Fifth Law of Design

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Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
- Sydney Smith

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
- Pearl S. Buck

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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
- Samuel Butler

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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
- Tallulah Bankhead

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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

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In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.
- Finagle's Third Law

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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Martin Vanbee

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Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
- William James Mayo

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Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
- John Oliver Hobbes

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
- James Russell Lowell

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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
- Beatrice Wood

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She had an unequaled gift of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
- Henry James

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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
- Steve Jobs

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The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
- Lewis Grizzard

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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
- John Dalberg-Acton

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Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

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We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.
- George Washington

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We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
- Andy Rooney

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Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
- Amos Tversky

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