Quotations are sometimes valuable pearls, but original thoughts can be priceless treasure.
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1. "Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?"
Elias Canetti, "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"
Other categories: Question and Problem
2. "If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
3. "Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."
Graham Greene
Other categories: Success and Fame
4. "Woman was God?s second mistake."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Other categories: Woman and Man
5. "At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings."
Gérard Depardieu
Other categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Youth and Age
6. "Doctors bury their mistakes. Lawyers hang them. But journalists put theirs on the front page."
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7. "Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated."
(?), Inscription on the cenotaph at Hiroshima
Other categories: Inscriptions etc.
8. "The essence of a man is found in his faults."
Francis Picabia
Other categories: Human
9. "The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."
Francis Picabia
Other categories: Various
10. "The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries."
Francis Picabia, "Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms"
Other categories: Success and Fame
11. "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter."
William Somerset Maugham, "The Summing Up"
Other categories: Human -:- Success and Fame
12. "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. "
Mark Twain
Other categories: Forgiveness
13. "An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
14. "It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."
Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
15. "He who angers you conquers you."
Elizabeth Kenny
Other categories: Anger
16. "We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
17. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby
Other categories: Success and Fame
18. "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
Franklin P. Jones
19. "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"
Other categories: Education
20. "Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
Jules Renard
Other categories: Envy -:- Success and Fame
21. "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."
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Other categories: Science and Technology
22. "Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience."
Victoria Holt
Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia
23. "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
Sophia Loren
Other categories: Life and Death
24. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
Mahatma Gandhi
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
25. "A man's ruin lies in his tongue."
Egyptian proverb
Other categories: Oration and Silence
26. "The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
Napoleon Hill
27. "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
Quentin Crisp
28. "Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes."
John C. Calhoun
Other categories: Success and Fame
29. "When you lose, don't lose the lesson."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Other categories: Education
30. "Success is getting up just one more time than you fall down."
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Other categories: Success and Fame
31. "Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."
Friedrich von Schiller
32. "The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."
Deborah Tannen
Other categories: Egoism
33. "There were grammatical errors even in his silence."
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Other categories: Oration and Silence
34. "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."
Niels Bohr
Other categories: Science and Technology
35. "My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure."
Ashleigh Brilliant
Other categories: Success and Fame
36. "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
Kin Hubbard
Other categories: Destiny and Fate
37. "Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays."
Friedrich von Schiller
Other categories: Dreams and Desires
38. "Failure is success if we learn from it."
Malcolm Forbes
Other categories: Success and Fame
39. "It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors."
Peter Mere Latham
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
40. "It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail."
Genghis Khan
Other categories: Success and Fame
41. "All men make mistakes but married men find out about them sooner."
Red Skelton
Other categories: Marriage
42. "Error is the price we pay for progress."
Alfred North Whitehead
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
43. "The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain."
Colin Wilson
Other categories: Human
44. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
George Bernard Shaw
Other categories: Success and Fame
45. "Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."
Napoleon Hill
46. "Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed."
Henry S. Haskings
47. "The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong."
Georges Bidault
Other categories: Power and Weakness
48. "Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down."
Wilson Mizner
Other categories: Success and Fame
49. "A farmer learns more from a bad harvest than a good one."
Dutch proverb
Other categories: Education
50. "Failure is the only opportunity to begin more intelligently."
Henry Ford
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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