You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
Rene Descartes

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
H. L. Mencken

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.
Jerry Seinfeld

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
Gertrude Stein

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
Casey Stengel

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Douglas Adams

Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Ralph Nader

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
Chief Joseph

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
Angelina Jolie

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.
Paul J. Meyer

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Morihei Ueshiba

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell