Errors Quotes

Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

— Janet Morris

One errs as long as one strives.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am a frail vessel full of errors.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Many a truth is the result of an error.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The pleasing punishment that women bear.

— William Shakespeare

Error, no keyboard. Press F1 to continue.

— Woody Allen

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

— Duke of Wellington

I want to be the victim of his errors.

— Marquis de Sade

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

— Benjamin Wiker

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

— Martin Heidegger

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

— Kenneth Appel

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

— Petrarch

Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.

— Thomas Aquinas

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

— Criss Jami

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

— Samuel Butler

This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.

— Martin Luther

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

— Edward Abbey

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors…

— Plato

Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand…

— Muhammad

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in…

— Conan O'Brien

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

— Gary Hamel

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a…

— Ben Huh

“Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'Reversible Errors' is about the limits of the law to define who committed ultimate evil, to define what ultimate evil is, to…

— Scott Turow

“You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this…

— Thomas Bernhard

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the…

— M. R. DeHaan

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in…

— Louis Auchincloss

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But…

— John Green

God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us…

— James Russell Lowell

One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider…

— Carl Sagan

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind…

— Ayn Rand

Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on…

— Phineas Quimby

It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally…

— Alexander Hamilton