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ERRORS [Also see Evil Failure Faults Guilt Mistakes Sin Wickedness]

The wisest of the wise may err.
      - Aeschylus

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.
      - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. A Mountain Sunrise)

Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
      - Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (pt. I, sec. VI)

Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
      - William Ellery Channing, Address on The Present Age

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.
  [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]
      - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Philippicoe (XII, 2)

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.]
      - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 17)

The cautious seldom err.
      - Confucius, Analects (bk. IV, ch. XXIII)

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.
      - William Cowper, Poem on Truth (l. 1)

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
  He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
      - John Dryden, All for Love (prologue)

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
      - John Kenneth Galbraith

Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
      - John Gay, Beggar's Opera (act II, sc. 2)

A man's errors are what make him amiable.
      - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man errs as long as he strives.
      - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
      - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

While man's desires and aspirations stir,
  He can not choose but err.
    [Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.]
      - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust--Prolog im Himmel--Der Herr (l. 77)

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
  [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, weil sie sich nichts Vernunftiges vorsetzen.]
      - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Spruche in Prosa (III)

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
      - Arthur Guiterman

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.]
      - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (II, 3, 50)

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
      - Victor Hugo, La Legende des Siecles

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
      - Thomas Jefferson

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
      - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth.
      - Carl Gustav Jung

When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right.
  [Fr., Quand tout le monte a tort, tout le monde a raison.]
      - Pierre Claude Nivelle de la Chaussee, La Gouvernante (I, 3)

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
      - John Locke (1)

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
      - John Locke (1)

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