Mistakes Quotes

Mistakes refers to an error; a blunder. It commonly describes a pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place, to understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another, and to misunderstand (someone), which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to to commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong and to take or choose wrongly, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Mistakes as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Mistakes therefore works well as a quotation category because it can hold direct statements about the subject, figurative uses that borrow its meaning, and broader reflections that stay anchored to the same central idea. Mistakes is not limited to a single rigid definition in ordinary language, and that wider range is part of what makes the category useful for grouping related material without losing the term's main sense.

Featured Authors on Mistakes

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L. M. Montgomery

(1874-1942)

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W. Somerset Maugham

(1874-1965)

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Al Franken

(b. 1951)