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
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
