Error Quotes

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He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed… — Leo Tolstoy
We all know that a book is not really a person. It isnâ€™t a human being. But if you are a lover of books as… — Margaret Atwood
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy. — Lev Grossman
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other… — Thomas Merton
Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to… — Elisabeth Elliot
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort — Gene Kranz
The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error. — Christopher Pike
Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal? — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum… — C.S. Lewis
Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of… — Noam Chomsky
Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of… — Charles Yu
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception. — Jasper Fforde
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that… — C.S. Lewis
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal… — Barbara Kingsolver
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become… — Hermann Hesse
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false… — Dorothy L. Sayers
There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual… — Charles Robert Maturin
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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