| "It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)" »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "America is a mistake, a giant mistake." »Sigmund Freud |
| "We must not say every mistake is a foolish one." »Cicero |
| "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." »Albert Einstein |
| "The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be." »Walter Bagehot |
| "Without music life would be a mistake." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." »John Powell |
| "Never mistake motion for action." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "No one is listening until you make a mistake." »Anonymous |
| "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." »Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower |
| "He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake." »Unknown |
| "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." »Orlando A. Battista |
| "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." »Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress." »Millard Fillmore |
| "No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly." »D. A. Battista |
| "Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had" »Henry James |
| "A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something." »Phoenix Flame |
| "A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts." »Herbert V. Prochnow |
| "If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible." »Bernard Mannes Baruch |
| "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes." »Douglas Adams |
| "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment." »Conan Doyle |
| "The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake..." »Nelson Boswell |
| "I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." »Edward Gibbon |
| "To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all." »Peter McWilliams |
| "Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars." »Fred Allen |
| "Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." »Michael Sinz |
| "Most people are searching for happines. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.That's a fundemental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think." »Wayne W Dyer |
| "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again." »Franklin P. Jones |
| "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time." »Winston Churchill |
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