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"
Quotations
Mistake
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
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
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
