“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”
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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”
“Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species”
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself”
“Delay is preferable to error.”
“Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake”
“To err is human; to forgive, divine ”
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong”
“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own”
“Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society”
“A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy, a wise man because he thinks what is easy is difficult”
“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice”
“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”
“We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes”
“In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost”
“Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense”
“Error is discipline through which we advance”
“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things”
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered”
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact”