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"
Quotations
Mistake
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
