Famous quotes containing the word mistakes:
“The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“She had an unequalled gift ... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions—especially selfish ones.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)