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 never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
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
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
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"
