An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
Quotations
Mistake
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
A human being is absolutely independent; therefore whatever happens to him
is completely his own responsibility. The one who holds others responsible,
repeatedly commits the same mistakes again and again.
-Deep Trivedi
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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"
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
