How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Mistake
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
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"
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"
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
