The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
Quotations
Mistake
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"
The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
A human being is absolutely independent; therefore whatever happens to him
is completely his own responsibility. The one who holds others responsible,
repeatedly commits the same mistakes again and again.
-Deep Trivedi
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
