Good Mistake Quotes

• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational   Motivational   Change  

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• The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

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  Daniel Dennett

  Art   Mistake   Mind  

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.

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  Edward Teller

  Mistake   Science   Genius  

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.37, Basic Books

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• The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

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  Daniel Dennett

  Mistake   Chiefs   Tricks  

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom   Mistake   Struggle  

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational   Life   Motivational  

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

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• Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

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  Jean Plaidy

  Life   Motivational   Happiness  

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• Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

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  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mistake   Waste   Good Mistake  

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Apr 18, 2012

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• It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

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  Sara Bareilles

  Mistake   Shame   Good Mistake  

  Song: Undertow, Album: Careful Confessions, 2004

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• The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mistake   Events   World  

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 68, 1799.

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