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Category: Defeates and Mistakes

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1. "Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

2. "Love truth, but pardon error."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

3. "Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."

Heinrich Heine

Quotations about: Education

4. "The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure."

Anon.

5. "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

6. "Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Marriage

7. "General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Human

8. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

Elbert Green Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

9. "Only great men have great faults."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

10. "Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

11. "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

12. "To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish."

Benjamin Franklin

13. "Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and The Sea"

Quotations about: Human

14. "We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Egoism

15. "Resign, v. A good thing to do when you are going to be kicked out."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

16. "What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"

Quotations about: Human

17. "If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

18. "Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim."

Graham Greene, "The Heart of the Matter"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

19. "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

20. "It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. "

William Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

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21. "The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

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