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"
Quotations
Mistake
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
