Error Quotes

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Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what… — Og Mandino
...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. — Peter S. Beagle
I made a fatal error thinking he could save me. — Jenny Downham
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad… — Carl Sagan
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it… — Ayn Rand
I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven. — Jim Butcher
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future.… — W. Somerset Maugham
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes… — Christopher Morley
Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late. — G. Edward Griffin
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate… — Mortimer Adler
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish. — Thomas Szasz
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily… — Paul Bowles
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. — Nick Harkaway
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to… — Daniel Quinn
We do not find truth groveling through error. — Thomas S. Monson

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