I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
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 only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
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"
