The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
Quotations
Mistake
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
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"
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
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
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
Because we know, we are doing wrong, what others think of us holds so much
importance to us.
-Deep Trivedi
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"
