Error Quotes

1098 quotes by 772 authors

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic… — Teri Garr
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. — Nikki Giovanni
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well. — Martin Gore
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. — Charles Darwin
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all… — Elmer Davis
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. — Rene Descartes
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call… — Philip K. Dick
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. — Benjamin Disraeli
Honor thy error as a hidden intention. — Brian Eno
No one who lives in error is free. — Euripides
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe. — William Hague
Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen… — Levon Helm
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. — George Herbert
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. — Victor Hugo
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable… — Thomas Huxley
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That… — Jesse Jackson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. — Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error. — Thomas Jefferson

Who Wrote These Error Quotes

772 authors contributed a total of 1,098 Error Quotes, led by these top contributors: