A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Trying to convince myself Ive found one. Making the mistake I never learned from.
Drake
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
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
Bryant McGill
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Lucille Clifton
It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
Terence
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions
Edward R. Murrow
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
Arthur Schopenhauer
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably
Bertolt Brecht
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg
I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains.†One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.
Adeline Knapp
There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.
William Howard Taft