Error Quotes

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Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error… — Reuben Archer Torrey
DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace. — Ambrose Bierce
'Type one' error is thinking that something special is happening when nothing special really is happening. 'Type two' error is thinking that nothing special is… — Marcello Truzzi
I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due… — Malcolm Turnbull
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Error is part of the overhead of doing research — Michael Ghiselin
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in… — Noam Chomsky
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data.… — Christian Nestell Bovee
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For by attending to… — Marcus Aurelius
Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. ...… — C.S. Lewis
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who… — Charles Caleb Colton
Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but… — Charles Caleb Colton
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. — Charles Caleb Colton
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement. — Alfred North Whitehead
L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa cÂ° able sans la gra"Â ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error… — Blaise Pascal
Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would… — Pope Francis
It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation. — Felix Frankfurter
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. — Anatole France
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. — John Kenneth Galbraith
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. — Mahatma Gandhi

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