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
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
