A Quote by Charles Spurgeon
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.
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To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
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.
17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
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.
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.
To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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.
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.
[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse, all action would immediately cease, and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an end to their miserable existence.
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