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 don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge"
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
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"
