I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
Quotations
Mistake
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"
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
