Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.

Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as read more

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his
virtues.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his
virtues.

The cautious seldom err.

The cautious seldom err.

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but
in different directions.
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One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but
in different directions.
[Lat., Ille sinistrorsum hic dexrorsum abit, unus utrique
Error, sed variis illudit partibus.]

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

The truth is perilous never to the true,
Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,
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The truth is perilous never to the true,
Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,
And to the false, error and truth alike,
Error is worse than ignorance.