Error Quotes

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I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet… — Antonio Machado
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is… — Edward Gibbon
Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were… — Thomas Hardy
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as… — Daniel Webster
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. — Richard P. Feynman
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions… — George Eliot
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and… — Ann Radcliffe
There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what… — R A Salvatore
And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse… — George MacDonald
Thatâ€™s the thing with the young these days, isnâ€™t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile… — Nick Hornby
Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same… — Neal A. Maxwell
A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open… — James Joyce
...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are… — Mark Strand
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a… — Carl Sagan
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth… — H. L. Mencken
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if… — Agatha Christie
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners — Barbara Kingsolver
Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may… — Irenaeus of Lyons
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where… — Madeleine L'Engle

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