No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Quotations
Mistake
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
