Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means, one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.—George Eliot.
Our follies and errors are the soiled steps to the Grecian temple of our perfection.—Richter.
But for my part, my lord, I then thought, and am still of the same opinion, that error, and not truth of any kind, is dangerous; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions; and that, to know whether any proposition be true or false, it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences.—Burke.
Error in itself is always invisible; its nature is the absence of light.—Jacobi.
There is no place where weeds do not grow, and there is no heart where errors are not to be found.—J. S. Knowles.
Our understandings are always liable to error; nature and certainty is very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense.—Marcus Antoninus.
Let error be an infirmity and not a crime.—Castelar.
Errors such as are but acorns in our younger brows grow oaks in our older heads, and become inflexible.—Sir Thomas Browne.
Erudition.—'Tis of great importance to the honor of learning that men of business should know erudition is not like a lark, which flies high, and delights in nothing but singing; but that 't is rather like a hawk, which soars aloft indeed, but can stoop when she finds it convenient, and seize her prey.—Bacon.
Estimation.—A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,—by deeds, not years.—Sheridan.