Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Quotations
Mistake
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
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"
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
