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
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
