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
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
