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Now through DNA we have hard evidence that there is a lot more mistakes being made than we ever expected. That means there are thousands of people in jail today who could prove their innocence with DNA tests. ibid. Barry Scheck on Phil Donahue Show, cited, After Innocence 2005
I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes. Jimi Hendrix
What don’t you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own. A Taste of Honey, mother to daughter, 1958
Mary’s decision to marry Philip [II] has been seen as the defining mistake of her reign. Dr Helen Castor, She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens III: Jane, Mary and Elizabeth, BBC 2012
The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing. It only hunts for mistakes. Diana, Le Monde 27th August 1997
There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Bill Maher, interview Sex, Drugs & Religion, 2010
A German mistake allowing Allied troops to escape from Dunkirk. Tim Pigott-Smith, The Other Side of Dunkirk, BBC 2020
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God who creates faulty humans and then blames them for their own mistakes. Gene Roddenberry
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. Samuel Butler
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities – perhaps the only one – in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there. Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake. Karl Popper, In Search of a Better World, 1984
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. Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws. Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. Bertolt Brecht
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. Vincent van Gogh
I tell you, if one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm – but that’s a lie, and you yourself used to call it that. That way lies stagnation, mediocrity. Vincent van Gogh, letter to Theo October 1884
There is a natural bureaucratic tendency to cover up mistakes. The Parallax View 1974 starring Warren Beatty & Paula Prentiss & Hume Cronyn & William Daniels & Walter McGinn & Kelly Thorsden & Chuck Waters & William Joyce & Bettie Johnson et al, director Alan J Pakula, Beatty to boss
The only mistake I ever made was getting caught. We’re No Angels 1954 starring Aldo Ray & Humphrey Bogart & Peter Ustinov & Joan Bennett & Basil Rathbone & Leo G Carroll & John Baer & Gloria Talbott & Lea Penman & John Smith et al, director Michael Curtiz
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life. Star Trek: The Next Generation s2e21: Peak Performance, Picard to Data
We all make mistakes. We know we make mistakes. Robert S McNamara, The Fog of War, 2003
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. Oliver Cromwell, letter to Church of Scotland 3rd August 1650
All the mistakes I’ve ever made in my life have been when I’ve been drunk. I haven’t made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever. Tracey Emin
Drama is based on the Mistake. W H Auden, The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose III
Do not fear mistakes: there are none. Miles Davis
If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really playing. Coleman Hawkins
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Experience is merely the name men give to their mistakes. ibid.
Bury your mistakes. Rupert Murdoch
Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way ... Well, if you’re watching, don’t worry, there isn’t! Michael Fish, BBC Weather 15th October 1987
There’s many a slip ’twixt cup and lip. Mid-16th century proverb
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. George Eliot, Middlemarch
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong. George Eliot, Middlemarch
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. John Ruskin
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. Sophocles, Antigone
I’ve made all the mistakes one can make. Lyndon B Johnson
It is only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. Joseph Conrad
As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence. Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Mrs Squeers
The weakest link in the room isn’t usually the drugs or the equipment, it’s us – the surgical team. Horizon: How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery, BBC 2013
Elaine Bromiley case: a routine sinus operation 2005: intubation failed ... their decision-making had become fatally compromised ... they had lost their situational awareness. ibid.
By concentration on a single task or activity it’s [brain] capacity to actually monitor other things by the passage of time is severely compromised. ibid.
Their checklist doesn’t just catch simple human mistakes ... it helps to flatten the traditional hierarchy. ibid.
Medicine is waking up to the experience of others. ibid.