A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Mistake
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"
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
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
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
