A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Mistake
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
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 error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
A human being is absolutely independent; therefore whatever happens to him
is completely his own responsibility. The one who holds others responsible,
repeatedly commits the same mistakes again and again.
-Deep Trivedi
