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 easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
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"
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
