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
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
