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
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
