An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Quotations
Mistake
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Alexander Pope
"Swift: Miscellanies"
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
