Error Quotes

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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an… — Dale Turner
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the… — Dale Turner
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. — William Jennings Bryan
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. — Raymond Aron
Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before. — Arthur Guiterman
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. — Jeremy Taylor
Pure innovation is more gross than error. — George Chapman
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who… — James Smithson
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from… — Robert Owen
How is an error possible in mathematics? — Henri Poincare
Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.… — George Ryan
I did it the stupid way, through trial and error. — Jake Roberts
On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made. — Sidney Blumenthal
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and… — Adam Clarke
They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or… — C. Everett Koop
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore,… — Frances Wright
Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time. — Camille Pissarro
Error is discipline through which we advance. — William Ellery Channing
Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. — Vilfredo Pareto
The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill. — David Keene

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