Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth,
error is not a fault of our knowledge, read more

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth,
error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our
judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

The smallest errors are always the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]

The smallest errors are always the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you read more

Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.

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.]

Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as
trophies unto the enemies of truth.

Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as
trophies unto the enemies of truth.

The cautious seldom err.

The cautious seldom err.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.