Error Quotes

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Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those… — Soren Kierkegaard
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. — James A. Garfield
Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need… — David Brin
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. — Leo Tolstoy
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Too great haste leads us to error. — Moliere
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons — Pietro Metastasio
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and… — Galileo Galilei
The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth,… — John Updike
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your… — Leonardo da Vinci
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. — William Cowper
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,… — Alexander Pope
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! — Alexander Pope
The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error. — Richard Whately
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. — John Keats
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike,… — Philip James Bailey
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. — William Godwin

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