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
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
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
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"
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
