Error Quotes

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The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you… — Swami Vivekananda
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -… — Voltaire
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. — Voltaire
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight. — Jimmy Wales
If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number… — Bill Walsh
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must… — George Washington
The way to succeed is to double your error rate. — Thomas J. Watson
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he… — Bob Woodward
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when… — Frances Wright
Love truth, but pardon error. — Voltaire
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that… — Michelangelo
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. — Bertolt Brecht
Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also… — Philip K. Dick
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true… — J.R.R. Tolkien
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. — Hermann Hesse
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that… — Paul Valery
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;… — John Stuart Mill
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and… — C.S. Lewis
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,… — Joseph Conrad

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