Error Quotes

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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent,… — Louis Aragon
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's… — Louis Aragon
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. — Louis Aragon
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a… — Thomas Sowell
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind… — Alexander Hamilton
[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to… — Morris Kline
It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the… — Robert H. Jackson
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced… — Jean Meslier
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living. — Sinclair Lewis
Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems… — Carl Sagan
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result… — C.S. Lewis
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth. — Hans Reichenbach
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a… — Thomas Jefferson

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