Error Quotes

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An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong. — Marva Collins
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner
It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances,… — Isabella Beeton
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready… — Carl von Clausewitz
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. — Benjamin Disraeli
Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that… — Hans-Peter Durr
In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the… — Ralph Miller
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs… — Walter Lippmann
In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have… — John J. Pershing
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act… — Simone Weil
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Where there is much freedom there is much error. — Friedrich Schiller
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. — Francis Picabia
The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate… — Royal Robbins
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems. — Leon Brown
Haste breeds error; error breeds woe. — Janet Morris
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
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. — George Eliot
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The… — Oscar Wilde
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. — Thomas Carlyle

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