mistake

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

—Seneca

“One thing we’ve learned is, if it’s clear that something is a mistake, fix it quickly.

It doesn’t get better while you wait.”

Charlie Munger

Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes.

—Laozi

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.

—Stephen Hawking

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.

—Stephen Hawking

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement.

—Henry Ford

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

—Oscar Wilde

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

—Henry Ford

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

—Seneca

Many persons are misled by the favourable opinions entertained of them by others; many, it is to be feared, mistake a hot zeal for orthodoxy, for a cordial acceptance of the great truths of the gospel.

—William Wilberforce

There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics.

—J. Gresham Machen

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

—Cicero

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

—Cicero

It is a mistake to look for grace to visit us as a kind of benign magic, or to expect God’s help to come as a windfall apart from conditions known & met. To desire revival, for instance, and at the same time to neglect prayer & devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

—Tozer

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

—Albert Einstein

Can you say, Christians, that you are willing to have your mistakes directed by God or men, your corruptions discovered, anything that helps to the pulling up the roots of corruption? Surely thus it must be if you will be for Christ, all faithful admonitions and afflictions.

—John Flavel

There is no limit to God’s power. That is the great mistake with men; they are always limiting God’s power by their own.

—D. L. Moody

There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology – His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good – you can leave His ethical teaching intact.

—J. Gresham Machen

The Scripture cannot deceive us, if rightly understood; but it may, if perverted, prove the occasion of confirming us in a mistake. The Holy Spirit cannot mislead those who are under his influence; but we may suppose that we are so, when we are not.

—John Newton

The Scripture cannot deceive us, if rightly understood; but it may, if perverted, prove the occasion of confirming us in a mistake. The Holy Spirit cannot mislead those who are under his influence; but we may suppose that we are so, when we are not.

—John Newton

Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.

—John Locke

Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.

—John Locke

Forgiving doesn’t mean you have to repeat the same old mistakes.

—Peter R. Rose