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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.]
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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.]
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.
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error
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.
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.