Error Quotes

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Honest error may play prologue to wonders. — Ari Berk
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error. — James Harvey Robinson
How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence… — Steven Johnson
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered. — Roger von Oech
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve… — Frances Wright
Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in… — Robbie Coltraine
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed. — Lord Chesterfield
Truth is immortal; error is mortal. — Mary Baker Eddy
Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are… — Mary Baker Eddy
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact — Jacques Ellul
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is… — William Zinsser
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. — Thomas Hobbes
There is no original truth, only original error. — Gaston Bachelard
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. — Henry David Thoreau
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts… — George Gillespie
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is… — Carl Sagan
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what… — David Brin
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth.… — Rene Daumal

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