Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Mistake
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
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 life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
