"I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake."
Read quote
3 likes
Mistake quotes
Mistake
6.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Mistake
Browse quotes that often appear alongside mistake — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Mistake quotes (page 83 of 320)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!"
Read quote
3 likes
"The problem is not the sentiment, it's the execution. When a company makes a mistake, the individual benefits because they've learned how NOT to do something while the institution had to pay for the mistake."
Read quote
3 likes
"One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not."
Read quote
3 likes
"Mr. Churchill connected truly to what was in the hearts of the British people, which is what a buoyant leader does. One of his most famous quotes is about making mistakes and learning from them. He wasn't shy to admit when things went wrong."
Read quote
3 likes
"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
Read quote
3 likes
"All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time."
Read quote
3 likes
"It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will."
Read quote
3 likes
"It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake."
Read quote
3 likes
"Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake."
Read quote
3 likes
"Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal."
Read quote
3 likes
"Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth."
Read quote
3 likes
"Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing until he makes the right mistake. In other words he's optimistic he will create something good by virtue of getting something "wrong.""
Read quote
3 likes
"the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion"
Read quote
3 likes
"And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold."
Read quote
3 likes
"We reject President Donald Trump's view. It was a mistake to say that 'the Islamic world divided into "good" and "evil"', a major wrongdoing."
Read quote
3 likes
"Regrettably, what we are now seeing is that the new U.S. government with Donald trump is stuck in the same old, partisan thinking patterns in terms of our resistance. That is a mistake."
Read quote
3 likes
"Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is the same as to say that it is merely a word which is powerful with us, and not the wide and true notion of what the word means. But we must define the true import of words, and not be slaves to syllables; for democracy in form is not necessarily people-power in fact, but power perhaps of a few, who cajole the many and so lead and use the people for their own ends."
Read quote
3 likes
"Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position."
Read quote
3 likes
"Never mistake motion for progress."
Read quote
3 likes