Error Quotes

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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius. — Arthur Helps
One pitch can be the difference between a win and a loss, an error could be the difference. — Lisa Fernandez
The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent. — Calvin Trillin
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. — Jan de Hartog
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance. — James Hutton
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of… — William Bayliss
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault
Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say.… — Ed Koch
Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the… — Joseph Black
Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In… — James Hutton
Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a clichÃ©. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to… — Paul Halmos
There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of… — Henry Augustus Rowland
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the… — Charles-Francois Dupuis
Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences.… — Carol Tavris
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make… — Michel de Montaigne
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard… — Mahatma Gandhi
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may… — Thomas Jefferson
Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error. — Thomas Jefferson

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