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
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
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"
