An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
Quotations
Mistake
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
