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"
Quotations
Mistake
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
