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"
Quotations
Mistake
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
