No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Quotations
Mistake
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
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"
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
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"
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
