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
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
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
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
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"
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford
