Comment: When trying to make sense of something, arrive at a better decision, or evaluate a new idea, one of the lessons here is not to come to a premature conclusion.No truth is without some mixture of error, and no error so false but that it possesses no element of truth.
If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error, he is liable to give up some truth with it, and in accepting the arguments of the other man he is sure to get some errors with it.
Honest argument is merely a process of mutually picking the beams and motes out of each other’s eyes so both can see clearly…
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what the receive.
After I get a hold of a truth I hate to lose it again, and I like to sift all the truth out before I give up an error.”
Credit: Wilbur Wright
Source: To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight By James Tobin · 2012
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