Errors Quotes

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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. — James Buchan
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. — Pearl S. Buck
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. — Edmund Burke
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. — Samuel Butler
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily… — John C. Calhoun
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we… — David Cameron
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. — Alexis Carrel
When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as… — Jimmy Carter
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice… — Giacomo Casanova
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. — William Ellery Channing
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit… — James Allen
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent,… — Louis Aragon
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's… — Louis Aragon

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