Mental Mistake

Famous quotes containing the words mental and/or mistake:

“It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
—Samuel Smiles (1812–1904)