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  • Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

  • We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

    "De Divinatione (On Divination)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter LII, Section 90), 44 BC.
  • I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

    Girl   Stupid   Mistake  
  • In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

    Mistake   Errors   Self  
    David Brin (1999). “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?”, p.10, Basic Books
  • If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

    Funny   Wisdom   Stupid  
    "Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication". Book by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, 1954.
  • Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

    "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.
  • The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms.

    Mistake   Gun   People  
  • The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

    Mistake   Self   People  
  • We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes.

  • The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

    Funny   Wise   Wisdom  
  • You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

    "The New York World-Telegram and Sun" Newspaper, 1961.
  • My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

  • The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

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

    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan
  • We all do make foolish mistakes.

  • Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

    Mistake   Mean   Self  
    Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing
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