No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Quotations
Mistake
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
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"
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
