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 greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
