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A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes."

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.