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
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
