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
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
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"
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
