Mistake

Famous quotes containing the word mistake:

“For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“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)