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
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
