Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.