“It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Book III, Author's Preface
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III
“Who Weapons put into a Mad-Man's Hands,
May be the first the Error understands.”
Fab. XXXVI: Of the Husband-man and the Wood
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Who Weapons put into a Mad-Man's Hands,
May be the first the Error understands." by John Ogilby?
John Ogilby121
Scottish academic 1600–1676Related quotes
Karen Meagher British actress
Auditioning for the Apocalypse (1984)
“The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.”
Georges Bidault (1899–1983) French politician
Quoted in the Observer (UK) newspaper, 15 July 1962.
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
"Do We Live Again?" an interview with Edison, as quoted in Mr. Edison's New Argument from Design" in The Illustrated London News (3 May 1924).
1920s
“Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist
John Locke book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Book IV, Ch. 7, sec. 11
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) English philosopher, born 1588
On the proposition that the volume generated by revolving the region under 1/x from 1 to infinity has finite volume. Quoted in Mathematical Maxims and Minims by N. Rose (1988)
“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist