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Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that read more
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair
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.]
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.]
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
