An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Quotations
Mistake
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford
