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
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
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
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
