Mistakes Quotes

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ~ The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith "Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!" ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen Adam was but human--this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent. ~ The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain "Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" ~ Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ~ Ulysses by James Joyce "Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth." ~ Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne