Errors Quotes

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It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." — Michel de Montaigne
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark… — Barbara Jordan
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. — Charlie Munger
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. — Henry David Thoreau
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error. — Gordon Moore
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. — Thomas Jefferson
If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not… — William Jennings Bryan
It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and… — Mary Antin
An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it. — Marilyn vos Savant
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter… — R. Buckminster Fuller
A man and his wife, each in a different small plane, were out enjoying a flight, when the husband committed a flight error. He was… — Truman G. Madsen
Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get. — Jim Rohn
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who… — Jean-Paul Marat
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error.… — Carl Sagan
To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error: contraception, which is to make love without making a child; artificial (in… — Jerome Lejeune
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. — Georges Bidault
Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom;… — Robert Kennedy
The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom. — Larry Ellison
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we… — John Gresham Machen

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