Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Allan Bloom
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to...
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to...
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Thomas Carlyle said, "Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment." We all make mistakes. In fact, we live in a world where we must learn from our mistakes. If you don't, you will just keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. The best way to learn from your mistakes is to understand what they are.

If there's a mistake that you're making again and again, chances are that it's because something about that particular situation is not quite right. What you've been doing isn't working, so change it.

Source: The Closing Of The American Mind

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