blunders

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Men are men they needs must err.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

All sins cast long shadows.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!