Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Mistake
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"
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
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 expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
