Love truth, but pardon error.[Aime la vérité, mais pardonne à l’erreur.]
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.
The errors are not in the art, but in the artificers.
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 kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing a new truth or fact.
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 repent divine, to persist devilish.
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
To a new truth there is nothing more hurtful than an old error.
