A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure, who either cannot, or does not, command and direct his attention to the present object, and, in some … - Philip Dormer Stanhope

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

errors and mistakes, however gross, in matters of opinion, if they are sincere, are to be pitied, but not punished nor laughed at. The blindness of the understanding is as much to be pitied as the blindness of the eye; and there is neither jest nor guilt in a man's losing his way in either case. Charity bids us set him right if we can, by arguments and persuasions; but charity, at the same time, forbids, either to punish or ridicule his misfortune.