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
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Because we know, we are doing wrong, what others think of us holds so much
importance to us.
-Deep Trivedi
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"
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
