Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the study of successes as being basically more important than the study of failures. There are so many ways of being wrong and so few of being right, studying successes is more efficient.
The world is outside us; our senses are within us. How, then, do the two come together so that we can know something? Obviously our senses can't go forth and drag an actual chunk of the world back to their internal lair, intact and as is, for the benefit of the rest of the brain.
The world is outside us; our senses are within us. How, then, do the two come together so that we can know something? Obviously our senses can't go forth and drag an actual chunk if the world back to their internal lair, intact and as is, for the benefit of the rest if the brain.
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn__ misled you into thinking you know something you actually don__ know.
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.
There is no original truth, only original error.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Mistakes aren__ mistakes they are lessons!
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Truth is immortal error is mortal.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
To err is human to forgive divine.