Great Mistakes Quotes - Page 6

• There is a glory in a great mistake.

  Nathalia Crane

  Mistake, Glory

  "Swear By the Night and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Imperfection"), 1936.

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• Si piensas que puedes caminar en santidad sin mantener una comunión perpetua con Cristo, has cometido un gran error. Si quieres ser santo, debes vivir cerca de Jesús.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesús, Error, Pensamiento

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). "Espigas entre las gavillas", p.16, SHELDON AND COMPANY

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• Cometí un gran error en mi vida: cuando firmé la carta al presidente Roosevelt recomendando que se fabricaran bombas atómicas, pero había cierta justificación: el peligro de que las fabricaran los alemanes.

  Albert Einstein

  Mistake, Military, President

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.20, St. Martin's Press

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• The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to death in the streets of Iran will go down as one of the great mistakes of the 21st Century.

  John McCain

  Mistake, Iran, Giving

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• It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

  Lewis Carroll

  Mistake, Philosophical, Genius

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• The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

  Edmund Wilson

  Country, Mistake, Europe

  Edmund Wilson, Edward J.N. Wilson (1983). "Los años cuarenta: De cuadernos y diarios de la época"

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• The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mistake, Believe, Kind

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). "Modos y moral"

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• Una doctrina es algo que te ata a un modo de conducta determinado y a decenas de situaciones que no puedes prever, lo cual es un gran error de principio. Cuando se utilizó la palabra "contención" en mi artículo "X", se hizo en relación con una determinada situación que prevalecía entonces, y como respuesta a ella.

  George F. Kennan

  Mistake, Principles, Doctrine

  "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq". historynewsnetwork.org. August 08, 2005.

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• Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mistake, Writing, Moon

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.41, Dial Press

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• Hemingway siempre solía echarme la bronca por incluir tantas cosas de actualidad. Siempre decía que era un gran error, que dentro de cincuenta años nadie lo entendería. Puede que tuviera razón; empieza a ser verdad.

  John Dos Passos

  Mistake, Years, Fifty

  Discussion session with students at Union College on October 16, 1968. "John Dos Passos: The Major Nonfictional Prose". Book edited by Donald Pizer, 1988.

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• It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mistake, Thinking, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.

  Kevin Allen

  Wise, Mistake, Kids

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.

  William Osler

  Mistake, Men, Evil

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.233, ACP Press

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