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Mistakes
«Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.»
«Our mistakes don't make or break us - if we're lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we're really made of.»
«Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name.»
Author: Frank Medlicott
| About:
Mistakes
| Keywords:
agreement, cowardice, feign, feigning, in agreement, tact, tactful, weakness
«Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.»
«Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much»
«No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Arguments,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
assuming, nonsensical, supporter, supporters, to a great extent
«Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.»
«Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Justice,
Mistakes,
Presidency,
Sin
| Keywords:
blooded, cold-blooded, Dante, hearted, in cold blood, Presidents, scales, weighs