Formerly when religion was strong and science weak men mistook magic for medicine now when science is strong and religion weak men mistake medicine for magic.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen to talk to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Positive adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

If you're not making mistakes then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding emotionally but you recover. Personally wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms helps me reflect and in the process restore my creativity.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

In politics... never retreat never retract... never admit a mistake.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them understand them thoroughly. After that it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate because it defines our limitations.

I don't like to be labeled to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music but it's counter-productive.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.