A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Mistake
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
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"
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
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
