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
Quotations
Mistake
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"
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"
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
