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
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
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"
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
