The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
Quotations
Mistake
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
