I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
Quotations
Mistake
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-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"
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
