Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Mistake
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"
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford
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 you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
