Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Mistake
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
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
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
