I saw the errors I had made and assumed full…

The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

— Paul Ryan

“I'm not sure why I've always assumed that the responsibility of a conversation falls on me.”

— Julie Buxbaum

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done,…

— William Faulkner

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and…

— Edward Steichen

Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry…

— Claude Bernard

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred,…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for…

— Gorgias

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly…

— Leroy Hood

But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the…

— John Calvin

Truth is error burned up.

— Norman O. Brown

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

— Colin Powell

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe