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"
Quotations
Mistake
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
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"
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
