He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
Denis Diderot

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
Arthur Miller

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
Deborah Tannen

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Joan Collins

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.
Stephen Harper

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. Murrow

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
Ben Harper

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.
Ava Gardner

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset Maugham

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm Forbes

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
James Longstreet

I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.
Frank Lampard

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.
Bobby Orr

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.
Janice Dickinson

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.
Judith Butler

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Cesare Pavese