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“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers. He thinks of his enemy...” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.” Henry James, “The Ambassadors” - 1903

“I am convinced that, where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.” David Hume, “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals” - 1751

“Some falls are means the happier to arise.” William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” - 1623

“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“Only the mistakes have been mine.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly, so that there could be no mistaking it.” Ulysses S. Grant, “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant” - 1885

“But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Old Age” - 44 BC

“In a certain sense we cannot make mistakes in logic.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” - 1921

“Experience is the name Tuppy gives to his mistakes.” Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan” - 1893

“I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“It began as a mistake.” Charles Bukowski, “Post Office” - 1971

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A Study in Scarlet (1)
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Post Office (1)
The Ambassadors (1)
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1)