How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Mistake
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-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
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
