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Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.: Azel Backus
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.: Charles Peguy
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.: Ernest Dimnet
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)

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