Error Quotes

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If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present… — Benjamin Franklin
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being… — William Shakespeare
Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyoneâ€™s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her… — Vasily Grossman
We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - thereâ€™s no other way to be… — Philip Roth
I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with… — Fernando Pessoa
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural… — Terry Pratchett
Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. Thatâ€™s because my books are not to be read in… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of… — Edward Albee
A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by… — C.S. Lewis
For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us lifeâ€™s but breath, to trust it error. — William Shakespeare
Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost all dogs don't… — Terry Pratchett
It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't… — Thomas M. Disch
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and… — Galileo Galilei
Uh, what are you doing?â€ â€œNothing much. Just erasing all of Calindaâ€™s good grades and replacing them with incompletes. Eventually, the administrators will figure out… — Jennifer Estep
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence. — Orson Scott Card
It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. — Elizabeth Gaskell
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in… — Eckhart Tolle
To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we… — Marilynne Robinson

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