How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.
One errs as long as one strives.
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!