I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors; Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say)… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as… — Jose Clemente Orozco Copy Share Image
What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
