Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Mistake
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
