An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
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"
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford