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Posts Tagged ‘Mistakes’

Particularly When Blogging

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Writing, tagged Intelligence, Mistakes, Philosophy, Quotes, Rod Serling, Writing on February 2, 2026| 2 Comments »

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

— Rod Serling

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Certainty Eludes Us

Posted in History, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Absolute Certainty, Carl Sagan, History Of Science, Humans, Improvement, Mistakes, Philosophy, Quotes, Understanding, Universe on July 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But the history of science — by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans — teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.

— Carl Sagan

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Everything Has Its Cost

Posted in Economics, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Brian Herbert, Change, Cost, Economics, Future, Mistakes, Pay, Philosophy, Price, Quotes, Universe on May 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.

— Brian Herbert

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Enormous Effort

Posted in Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Clarice Lispector, Effort, https://aponderingmind.org/, Life, Mistakes, Molecules, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, Simplicity, The Hour of the Star on February 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.
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Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

— Clarice Lispector
From her book: “The Hour of the Star“

[This quote was originally found on one of the blogs I have been following for several years: A Pondering Mind at: https://aponderingmind.org/

The specific post is at: https://aponderingmind.org/2019/09/02/all-the-world-began-with-a-yes/

Please visit the original site if you have a spare minute. — kmab]

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It Starts With A Dream

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Belief, Confidence, Doubters, Dreams, Hard Work, Limits, Michael Phelps, Mistakes, Obstacles, Philosophy, Plans, Quotes, Trust on February 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »

You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits.

— Michael Phelps

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We ALL Make Them

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Being Human, Elbert Hubbard, Fear, Life, Mistakes, Philosophy, Quotes on August 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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

— Elbert Hubbard

[It’s called: “*Being Human*“. The “trick” is to not keep making the same bad ones over and over again. — kmab]

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In The Grand Scheme Of Things…

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Fear, Miles Davis, Mistakes, Philosophy, Quotes on February 23, 2023| 2 Comments »

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

– Miles Davis

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Unmistakable Progress

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Anonymous, Mistakes, Philosophy, Progress, Quotes on June 2, 2021| Leave a Comment »

You are making progress if each mistake you make is a new one.

— Anonymous

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At Least A Lot More Gray

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Life, Mistakes, Music, Philosophy, Quotes on May 31, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Without music, life would be a mistake.

― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ooops (Again)

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged George Bernard Shaw, Honor, Life, Mistakes, Philosophy, Quotes on December 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »

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

― George Bernard Shaw

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The Far Side

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Failure, Mistakes, Philosophy, Quotes, Success, Thomas J. Watson on August 7, 2019| Leave a Comment »

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.

— Thomas J. Watson

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The Ones Worth Remembering, Anyway

Posted in Humor, Quotes, tagged Experience, Humor, Mistakes, Oscar Wilde, Quotes on April 27, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

–– Oscar Wilde

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Every Vote Counts

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Edmund Burke, Mistakes, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Voting on January 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

— Edmund Burke

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#45: Still Trying To

Posted in Humor, Politics, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged #DumbDonald, #IncompetentDonald, Groucho Marx, Humor, Learning From Others, Mistakes, Politics, Quotes on July 26, 2018| 2 Comments »

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

― Groucho Marx

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And Your Point Is?

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Buddha, Fingers, Mistakes, Philosophy, Pointing, Quotes, Teaching on February 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »

My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.

– Buddha

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