No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Quotations
Mistake
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"
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
A human being is absolutely independent; therefore whatever happens to him
is completely his own responsibility. The one who holds others responsible,
repeatedly commits the same mistakes again and again.
-Deep Trivedi
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
