#mistake

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#asking #avoided #could #counted #device

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#believe #congressional #elections #especially #live

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#defeat #every #laughter #listen #mistaken

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. ↗

— Dan Savage

#expected #imposing #made #men #mistake

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#mistakes #result #someone

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#called #confusion #entirely #first #good

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#big #by the time #campaign #debate #debates

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that. ↗

— Ashley Scott

#hard #hard time #i #lines #make

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes. ↗

— William Shatner

#keep #mistakes #most #myself #people

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#does #making #making mistakes #mistakes #never