No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

—Donald Foster

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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We are none of us infallible—not even the youngest of us.

—W.H. Thompson

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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

—Thomas H. Huxley

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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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