Administration Quote by Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the…

— James Madison

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

— Petrarch

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

— Mason Cooley

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

— Austin O'Malley

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man…

— Charles Mackay

“Enlightenment cast out the error.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

— John Locke

My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.

— Mahatma Gandhi