The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
Quotations
Mistake
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge"
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"
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
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
