Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Mistake
The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
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"
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-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"
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
