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 more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-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
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
