Error Quotes

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The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and… — Gautama Buddha
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it… — L. W. Sumner
From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly alike, and the… — Edward Anthony Spitzka
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." — Michel de Montaigne
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark… — Barbara Jordan
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. — Charlie Munger
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error. — Gordon Moore
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. — Thomas Jefferson
If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not… — William Jennings Bryan
It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and… — Mary Antin
An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it. — Marilyn vos Savant
A man and his wife, each in a different small plane, were out enjoying a flight, when the husband committed a flight error. He was… — Truman G. Madsen
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error.… — Carl Sagan
To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error: contraception, which is to make love without making a child; artificial (in… — Jerome Lejeune
Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom;… — Robert Kennedy
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we… — John Gresham Machen
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. — Arthur Schopenhauer
To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their… — Aristotle
A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a… — Dennis Miller

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