Alexander Pope

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

- Alexander Pope, poet

Confucius

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."

- Confucius, philosopher and social activist

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld, author

Oscar Wilde

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist, critic

Scott Adams

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

- Scott Adams, cartoonist

George Bernard Shaw

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

– George Bernard Shaw, critic and playwright

Tryon Edwards

"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

- Tryon Edwards, theologian

Billy Wilder

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."

- Billy Wilder, filmmaker, journalist, screenwriter

Jane Austen

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"

- Jane Austen, author

James Joyce

“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”

- James Joyce, author

Jules Verne

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”

- Jules Verne, author