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"
Quotations
Mistake
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
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 more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
