No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Quotations
Mistake
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
