Mistake

Notable quotes

“Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.”
— Dean Acheson, reported in Alistair Cooke, Letter from America: 1946-2004 (2004), p. 378. Sometimes errantly reported in the present tense, e.g. "It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake".
“Amerika ist ein Fehler, zugegeben ein gigantischer Fehler, aber nichtsdestotrotz ein Fehler.”
— America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
“We do not have to live the same mistakes over again if we can look at them, learn from them, and build upon them.”
— Audre Lorde, Learning from the 60s,
“There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory; but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.”
— Gian-Carlo Rota (with Fabrizio Palombi), Indiscrete Thoughts (1997), p. 202.
“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”
— Victor Hugo, La Légende des Siècles.
“I know but of one Being to whom error may not be imputed.”
— Lord Ellenborough, Rex v. Lambert and Perry (1810), 2 Camp. 402.

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