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
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
