An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
Quotations
Mistake
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"
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
