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"
Quotations
Mistake
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
