A Quote by Alexander Pope

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
English - Poet
May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope

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

Jonathan Swift

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

Jonathan Swift

Rather than admit a mistake, nations have gone to war, families have separated, and good people have sacrificed everything dear to them. Admitting that you were wrong is just another way of saying that you are wiser today than yesterday.

Don Ward

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

Jonathan Swift

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

Charles Spurgeon

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

Charles Spurgeon

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Anthony de Mello

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

Olin Miller

Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in effect, saying that we are wrong, or we were wrong, or we're going to be wrong. I would like to take the word should out of our vocabulary forever and replace it with the word could. This word gives us a choice, and we're never wrong.

Louise Hay

There is no magic. Harry Potter was probably the last one. There are no Harry Potters in politics. There are people who should be hard working, admit their mistakes - and we made a lot of mistakes - make an honest self-critic but change what we did wrong. What did we do wrong? We built a state which is big, which is corrupted, which is a state which should radically change. What is Mr Tsipras saying - keep it as it is, so everything that is old belongs to him.