Error Quotes

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To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error. — Confucius
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. — Thomas Browne
In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning. — Andy Rooney
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which… — Michelangelo
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. — Pablo Picasso
Error itself may be happy chance. — 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
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. — Wallace Stegner
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and… — Lewis Mumford
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess. — Diana Trilling
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be… — Horace Mann
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. — Georges Duhamel
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. — Lewis Thomas
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy,… — Mary Baker Eddy
Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal. — Jacob Bronowski
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error,… — Josiah Royce
A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even… — Mao Zedong
Truth is error burned up. — Norman O. Brown
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would… — Millicent Fenwick

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