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"
Quotations
Mistake
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"
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
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"
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
