A Quote by Jonathan Swift

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

Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift
Irish - Writer
November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745

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

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

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

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

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

Charles Spurgeon

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

Jonathan Swift

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

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

Charles Spurgeon

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

Stephenie Meyer

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Ashly Lorenzana

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

Robert H. Jackson

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

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