Error Quotes

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I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there… — Lincoln Chafee
This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error -… — Matt Gonzalez
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. — Jasper Fforde
Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson
If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to… — Lord Chesterfield
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear… — Thomas Jefferson
Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under… — Mary Worley Montagu
If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted to new uses, human progress would be slow — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages — Dave Barry
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make… — Bible
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy — Benjamin Stolberg
Love truth, and pardon error. — Voltaire
Speak the truth by all means; be bold and fearless in your rebuke of error, and in your keener rebuke of wrongdoing; but be human,… — W N Punshon
Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not know what is… — Samuel Johnson
Without music, life would be an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error — Robert Hall
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and… — Jonas Salk

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