James Madison Quotes

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

It is exactness I aim at, and would not have the least mistake, if possible, pass to the world. If I have unhappily fallen into any, it is through inadvertency only

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

Basketball's a game of mistakes.

Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.

There are no mistakes.

I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?

Many a truth is the result of an error.

One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.

We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.