An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Quotations
Mistake
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
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"
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
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"
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
