Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Mistake
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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
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"
