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
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
- Socrates
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- François De La Rochefoucauld
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
- Meg Whitman
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
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- George Bernard Shaw
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
- Jimi Hendrix
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