Error Quotes
1098 quotes by 772 authors
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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
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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
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
— Jasper Fforde
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Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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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
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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
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A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages
— Dave Barry
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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
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An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy
— Benjamin Stolberg
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Love truth, and pardon error.
— Voltaire
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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
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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
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Without music, life would be an error.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error
— Robert Hall
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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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