If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
Quotations
Mistake
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
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"
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
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"
