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“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.” Henry James, The Ambassadors
“It began as a mistake.” Charles Bukowski, Post Office
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Only the mistakes have been mine.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“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
“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
“Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“Experience is the name Tuppy gives to his mistakes.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Form no judgments and you will never be mistaken.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“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
“Some falls are means the happier to arise.” William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
“In a certain sense we cannot make mistakes in logic.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“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

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