How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Mistake
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"
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
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
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
