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
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
