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Alexander Pope
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.
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Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
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Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
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Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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.
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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.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
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John Dryden
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
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John Gay
Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
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John Locke
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.
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Matthew Prior
When people once are in the wrong, Each line they add is much too long; Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.
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Philip James Bailey
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.
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Pierre Claude N. La Chaussee
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.
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Plutarch
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
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Sir Thomas Browne
Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
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