I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
Quotations
Mistake
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
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
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
