"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Mistake Quotes #Literature Quotes

“It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.”
“Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.”
“Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.”
“I have only one goal in golf - to leave it with my sanity.”
“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”
“The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.”

Source : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
“I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing.”

Source : "Jada Pinkett Smith candid on family, projects". Interview with John Carucci, newsok.com. May 10, 2013.
“The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.”

Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.45, Canongate Books

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