Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
Quotations
Mistake
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
