A wire sieve pouring gray pebbles and teal beads into a shallow dish against a navy background.

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Wilbur Wright

If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error he is liable to give up some truth with it.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker warns that abandoning an error too quickly may mean losing some truth along with it. The thought treats mistaken and sound ideas as potentially entangled. One reading favours careful distinction over wholesale rejection, making haste itself a possible source of further error.

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