Erroneous Quotes

self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

— Ambrose Bierce

This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.

— Adriano Celentano

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To be human is erroneous.

— Karl Kraus

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

— Peter Drucker

Sometimes acknowledging your erroneous ways is the first step to redemption.

— Ravi Shastri

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

— Franz Grillparzer

“The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

— Voltaire

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

— Stephen King

I've always been able to make erroneous decisions very quickly.

— Herb Kelleher

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

— Albert Einstein

All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.

— Luc de Clapiers

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be…

— Anonymous

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

— Alexander Hamilton

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

— Ernst Mayr

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

— Samuel Johnson

The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.

— Robert Holden

“Every time we prove a positive, we simultaneously prove an infinite number of negatives. Therefore, it is erroneous to declare that we…

— G.M. Jackson

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“The wine had the effect of making him discourse on racing, a subject regarding which I was myself unfortunately too ignorant to…

— Anthony Powell

The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest…

— Pope Pius X

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation…

— Thomas Huxley

“I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Amending the ‘data’, or rejecting some as erroneous, is a frequent concomitant of scientific discovery, and the crucial ‘data’ cannot even be…

— David Deutsch

“And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd…

— Will Advise

'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

— Wayne Dyer

“The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.”

— Frank Herbert

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

— Bertrand Russell

“were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of”

— Lee Child

I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false

— Peter Joseph

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul…

— Herbert Spencer

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".

— Robert Bellarmine

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the…

— James Prescott Joule

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we…

— Josiah Royce

With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could've done something differently - but always with the…

— Diego Simeone