If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Quotations
Mistake
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
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"
