Error Quotes

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Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. — Thomas Jefferson
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry]… — Thomas Jefferson
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural… — Thomas Jefferson
Without error, there is no brilliancy. — Emanuel Lasker
If I had it my way, I would have just kept it short forever. Of course, men like long hair. There's no two ways about… — Emma Watson
"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply… — Alec Douglas-Home
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode… — Simone Weil
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice. — Lord Chesterfield
Without error there can be no brilliancy — Emanuel Lasker
Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head — Siegbert Tarrasch
The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk… — John William Strutt
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. — Alan Perlis
Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt… — Pope Pius XI
Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a… — John Arlott
I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. — George Ryan
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice,… — Albert Einstein
It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to all men, but… — Pope Pius X
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence of Dr. Pangloss… — Sir John Richard Hicks

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