Quotes About Foolish Mistakes

#1. I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.

Thomas Moore

#2. I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

Jennifer Damiano

#3. Alas, for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their sway.

Rabindranath Tagore

#4. What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.

Trey Anastasio

#5. What I really want to be is an actor.

Casey Kasem

#6. Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

Pope Leo XIII

#7. The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the panicky choices and the utter determination.

David Bergen

#8. And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool
but only to himself, of course.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. 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.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#10. Wisdom keeps us from making foolish mistakes.

Diane Goold

#11. Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things.

John Patrick Hickey

#12. So he decided he would never listen to anybody he knew? That's just like someone in a fairy tale.'
Knowing he had given his trust amiss, how could he bestow it again?'
That's foolish. Did he expect never to make any mistakes?

Pamela Dean

#13. We often commit foolish mistakes in trying to be smart

Siddharth Joshi

#14. Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.

Criss Jami

#15. Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Nicolas Chamfort

#16. As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.

Tony Bennett

#17. 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.

Monica Lewinsky

#18. Foolish mistakes don't make you dumb. Show your intelligence by changing your outcome.

Annette Whitaker-Moss

#19. What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid.

Robert Ringer

#20. We all do make foolish mistakes.

Susan Ford

#21. I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men' comic books. I read a couple 'Scott Pilgrim' this past year, and those are really good, but I don't read in general, unfortunately.

Charlyne Yi

#22. I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.

Louisa May Alcott

#23. Perhaps the gods punish us by bringing us face to face with our own foolish mistakes, condemning us to watch our children fall into the same traps that crippled us.

Robin Hobb

#24. Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Eminem

#25. You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false.

Paul Graham

#26. 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.

David Brin

#27. I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

John Clayton

#28. The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love.

Anthony Liccione

#29. 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.

Oswald Chambers