Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 35
“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.”
“Nothing’s a mistake until you make it.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing.”
“Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”
Source: The Human Stain
Jenkins, Chris, Chi Cubs 6, Milwaukee 3 http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=270407108, Yahoo! Sports, Retrieved on June 15, 2007
2007
“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”
“Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a
mistake.”
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.”
Lecture XIX : On the Conduct of the Understanding, Part II
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
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.
