It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to every one.
If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.
Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.[L’Erreur, par le contraste, rend plus éclatant le triomphe de la Vérité.]
A man must pay dear for his errors if he wishes to get rid of them, and even then he is lucky.
To free a man from error is to give, and not to take away.[Einen von einem Irrtum befreien heißt nicht ihm etwas nehmen, sondern geben.]
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
To a new truth there is nothing more hurtful than an old error.
There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.[Il y a une manière de rencontrer l’erreur en allant à la vérité.]
The senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all.[Dass die Sinne nicht irren, aber nicht darum, weil sie jederzeit richtig urtheilen, sondern weil sie gar nicht urtheilen.]
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.[Ils ne vont pas à la mer avec autant de rapidité que les hommes vont à l’erreur.]
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth which has already been recognised by others.
The errors of a man are what make him really lovable.
