An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Quotations
Mistake
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
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"
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
