He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Mistake
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-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"
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
