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"
Quotations
Mistake
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
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"
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Because we know, we are doing wrong, what others think of us holds so much
importance to us.
-Deep Trivedi
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
