The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
Quotations
Mistake
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
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"
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
