No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Quotations
Mistake
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
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"
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
