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
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Because we know, we are doing wrong, what others think of us holds so much
importance to us.
-Deep Trivedi
