An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
Quotations
Mistake
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"
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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"
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
