Mistakes

Famous quotes containing the word mistakes:

    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)

    So long as a person who has made mistakes ... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him.
    Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

    ... the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)