It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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An Outcast of the Islands, 1896, pt. 3, chap. 2
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possibly a translation of the Polish proverb, "Ten siê nie myli, kto nic nie robi."Joseph Conrad
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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
Joseph Conrad
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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
Bill Moyers
Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.”
Paulo Coelho
But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
Alexander McCall Smith
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