Carl Sagan Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Past Quotes

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.

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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

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Tags : Alain Prost Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Thinking Quotes

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Strong Quotes , Mistake Quotes

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Garden Quotes

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Wise Quotes , Mistake Quotes

Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Should Have Quotes

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

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Tags : Al D'Amato Quotes , Regret Quotes , Mistake Quotes

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

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Tags : Nick Vujicic Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Miracle Quotes

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Games Quotes

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Thinking Quotes

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Failing Quotes

I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Men Quotes

We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.

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People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Government Quotes

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Mistake Quotes

History will look back, and I'm fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Responsibility Quotes

And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Heart Quotes

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Advice Quotes

I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Fighting Quotes

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Clever Quotes , Mistake Quotes