Mistake Quotes

I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.

~ Björk

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

~ Justin Bieber

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

~ Winston Churchill

Morocco has a lot to do in terms of democracy. The daily practice of democracy evolves in time. Trying to apply a Western democratic system to a country of the Maghreb, the Middle East, or the Gulf would be a mistake. We are not Germany, Sweden or Spain.

~ Mohammed Vi Of Morocco

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

~ Hugh Hefner

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

~ Minna Antrim

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

~ Anna Held

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

~ Paulo Coelho

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

~ David Brin

Woman was God's second mistake.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

God has never made a mistake. Ever.

~ Ray Lewis

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

~ F. Sionil José

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

~ Henning Mankell

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

~ Martha Scott

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

~ Earl Wilson

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

~ Franklin P. Jones

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

~ John C. Maxwell

I have no doubt that the Palestinian Arab leadership made a mistake when it did not accept the partition plan in 1947, but I want to try to understand it.

~ Ayman Odeh

I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion.

~ Hugo Chavez

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

~ Elbert Hubbard

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

~ Emmet Fox

The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

~ Mehmet Oz

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

~ John Boehner

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

~ Joe Cornish

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

~ Christopher Hitchens

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

~ Joel Osteen

Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.

~ John Edwards

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

~ Douglas Adams

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

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

~ George Jessel

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

~ Douglas Adams

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

~ Ridley Scott

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

~ Robert Fripp

As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.

~ Sharon Salzberg

In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.

~ John Edwards

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

~ Josh Billings

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.

~ Sienna Miller

It's a mistake to believe technology rests outside India. We compete very successfully.

~ Adi Godrej