“ The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less. ”
- Piet Hein- Copy
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“ To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. ”
- Josh Jenkins- Copy
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“ To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative. ”
- Jerry Rubin- Copy
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“ For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ”
- James Anthony Froude- Copy
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“ It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers — they help us to learn. ”
- John Bradshaw- Copy
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“ What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
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“ Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum of Christianity. It is a mistake, and may lead to much error, to exhibit any series of maxims, even those of the Sermon on the Mount, as the ultimate sum and formula into which Christianity may be run up. ”
- Matthew- Copy
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“ No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ”
- Robert Southey- Copy
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“ Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for one another's little lapses. ”
- David Storey- Copy
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“ Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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“ No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ The image of Jan Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter… siting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal… the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine. ”
- Jane Fonda- Copy
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“ Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church. ”
- Nadine Gordimer- Copy
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“ If you haven't attained clear true vision, this causes you to lapse into extremes, so that you lose contact with reality. ”
- Zen Master Yuanwu- Copy
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“ The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. ”
- Jules Verne- Copy
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“ Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. ”
- George Herbert- Copy
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“ If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win. ”
- John W. Holt Jr.- Copy
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“ Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins. ”
- Paul Brown- Copy
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