Common Error Quotes
- The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's… — Fran Lebowitz
- There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius. — Arthur Helps
- It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect. — Jacob Bigelow
- Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent… — Andrew Soltis
- There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to… — Alfred North Whitehead
- It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is… — Mary Wortley Montagu
- Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind… — Albert J. Nock
- Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. — Charles Caleb Colton
- The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him figured out. So… — Joshua Harris
- It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and… — James Allen