Error Quotes

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Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him… — James Joyce
A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it — John Lennon
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a… — Aristotle
Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error… — Pascal Mercier
Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of… — C.S. Lewis
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is… — George Eliot
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. — Vilfredo Pareto
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary.… — Camille Paglia
From error to error one discovers the entire truth. — Sigmund Freud
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. — Hugh Walpole
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error. — William Carlos Williams
Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where… — Francis of Assisi
For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such… — Aristotle
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America… — Richard Dawkins
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and… — Max Born
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. — Adrian Rogers
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. — Eric Sevareid

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