Error Quotes

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No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of… — William L. Shirer
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. — Allan Bloom
Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get… — Charles Stross
Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other. — Bret Easton Ellis
All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness. — Brennan Manning
You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz. — P.G. Wodehouse
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery… — John Keats
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history… — Isaac Asimov
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing… — Aristotle
I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as… — Lewis Thomas
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is… — Charles Spurgeon
...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is… — Gina Barreca
If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the… — Blaise Pascal
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no… — William Faulkner
Why do women want to dress like men when theyâ€™re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms?… — Tasha Tudor
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is… — Huston Smith
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles… — Frank Herbert
The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him figured out. So… — Joshua Harris
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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