Errors Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

8 Errors quotes by Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin’s eight snippets turn errors into practical lessons, each distilled with his characteristic pragmatism. Though the set is short, it provides a clear, concise window into his view on human fallibility.

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When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all…

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When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and…

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Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth…

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If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd…

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A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

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Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I…

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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To…

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None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

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