The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Quotations
Mistake
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"
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
