“He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.”
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
Source: Norse Mythology (2017), Chapter 4, “Mimir’s Head and Odin’s Eye” (p. 45)
“He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing.”
The quote "He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing." is famous quote attributed to Luca Pacioli (1445–1517), Italian father of accounting.
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Italian father of accounting 1445–1517Related quotes
“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
Joseph Conrad book An Outcast of the Islands
Source: An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Pt. 3, Ch. 2; possibly an adaptation of a Polish proverb, "Ten się nie myli, kto nic nie robi" — "One is not wrong, who does nothing."
“He who never makes a mistake, never makes anything.”
Joseph Delaney (1945) British writer
Variant: He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.
Source: Revenge of the Witch
A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) Historian
Referring to Napoleon III, in "Mistaken Lessons from the Past", The Listener (6 June 1963)
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 21
Context: "Tell me," said the atheist, "Is there a God — really?"
Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer."
Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered.
"Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master.
"So you are an atheist?"
"Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it.
“Nothing’s a mistake until you make it.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
As quoted by Jacob A. Riis in Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1904), chapter XVI A Young Men's Hero http://www.bartleby.com/206/16.html <br class="br">1900s
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Not found in Burke's writings. Appears to be a paraphrase of "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little." sourced to Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).