Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Quotations
Mistake
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
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"
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"
A human being is absolutely independent; therefore whatever happens to him
is completely his own responsibility. The one who holds others responsible,
repeatedly commits the same mistakes again and again.
-Deep Trivedi
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
