You May Also Like / View all maxioms
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to read more
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
The cautious seldom err.
The cautious seldom err.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right read more
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
[Lat., Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias,
scio quam cum istis vera sentire.]
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but
in different directions.
[Lat., read more
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.]
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
