A Quote by Jonathan Swift
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
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To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than 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.
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.
Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.
Smile and let everyone know that today, you're a lot stronger than you were yesterday.
But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.
If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.
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?
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