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  • Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

    Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002

    Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

    Alvin Toffler

    Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

    Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

    An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

    Benjamin Stolberg

    Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun1 the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

    Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), from Plutarch, Lives

    We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

    Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

    Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

    Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

    Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen2 our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

    Cullen Hightower

    We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

    Dan Quayle (1947 - )

    No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

    Donald Foster

    Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

    Dr. David M. Burns

    The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually afraid you will make one.

    Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

    The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

    Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

    Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

    Franklin P. Jones

    It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

    Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'

    A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

    George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

    While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

    Henry C. Link

    She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

    Henry James (1843 - 1916)

    When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

    Hugh White (1773 - 1840)

    I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

    Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

    Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

    J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), speaking of Albert Einstein

    Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

    James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)

    Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

    James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

    If all else fails, immortality3 can always be assured by spectacular error.

    John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

    There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

    L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908

    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

    There are sadistic4 scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

    Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

    If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

    Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)

    If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

    Nadine Stair

    Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

    Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

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    1 shun [ʃʌn] 6EIzc   第8级
    vt.避开,回避,避免
    参考例句:
    • Materialists face truth, whereas idealists shun it. 唯物主义者面向真理,唯心主义者则逃避真理。
    • This extremist organization has shunned conventional politics. 这个极端主义组织有意避开了传统政治。
    2 lengthen [ˈleŋθən] n34y1   第7级
    vt.使伸长,延长
    参考例句:
    • He asked the tailor to lengthen his coat. 他请裁缝把他的外衣放长些。
    • The teacher told her to lengthen her paper out. 老师让她把论文加长。
    3 immortality [ˌimɔ:'tæliti] hkuys   第7级
    n.不死,不朽
    参考例句:
    • belief in the immortality of the soul 灵魂不灭的信念
    • It was like having immortality while you were still alive. 仿佛是当你仍然活着的时候就得到了永生。
    4 sadistic [sə'dɪstɪk] HDxy0   第12级
    adj.虐待狂的
    参考例句:
    • There was a sadistic streak in him. 他有虐待狂的倾向。
    • The prisoners rioted against mistreatment by sadistic guards. 囚犯因不堪忍受狱警施虐而发动了暴乱。

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