No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Quotations
Mistake
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
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
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
