A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Error is always more busy than truth.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.