Error Quotes

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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I… — Mahatma Gandhi
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. — George Bernard Shaw
Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions… — Michael Chabon
Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics. — Barry Hughart
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. — Linus Pauling
Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but… — Ayn Rand
And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah… — Os Guinness
A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error. — Rene Daumal
I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off. — Warren Zevon
Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of… — Salman Rushdie
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. — Bertrand Russell
The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as… — Carl Sagan
Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of… — C.S. Lewis
The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor… — Douglas Adams
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order… — Marilynne Robinson
When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to… — Thomas Jefferson
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate… — Jane Hamilton
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked… — Irenaeus of Lyons

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