This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Robert Kiyosaki, fully Robert Toru Kiyosaki
In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
We too often mistake the form of an experience for its essence. We worship the physical manifestation of the Holy Spirit, and not the Spirit itself.
Experience | Mistake | Spirit | Worship |
Man is what he is, not that which can be expressed. True the aim of all awareness is to express that which is, but expression is a slow, elusive task, and it is a mistake to assume that anything incapable of being stated in words does not exist.
It may be a mistake to mix different wines, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Children learn at their own pace, and it is a mistake to try to force them. The great incentive to effort, all through life, is experience of success after initial difficulties. The difficulties must not be so great as to cause discouragement, or so small as not to stimulate effort. From birth to death, this is a fundamental principle. It is by what we do ourselves that we learn.
Birth | Cause | Children | Death | Effort | Experience | Force | Life | Life | Mistake | Success | Learn |
Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Daniel Boorstin, fully Daniel Joseph Boorstin
In competition for prestige it seems only sensible to try to perfect our image rather than ourselves. That seems the most economical, direct way to produce the desired result. Accustomed to live in a world of pseudo-events, celebrities, dissolving forms, and shadowy but overshadowing images, we mistake our shadows for ourselves. To us they seem more real than the reality.
Competition | Events | Mistake | Reality | World |
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.
Constancy | Daring | Dejection | Misfortune | Mistake | Misfortune |
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, fully Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka FDR
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Common Sense | Method | Mistake | Sense | Temper |