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No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. — Thomas Hobbes
There is no original truth, only original error. — Gaston Bachelard
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. — Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts… — George Gillespie
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is… — Carl Sagan
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what… — David Brin
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth.… — Rene Daumal
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then… — Adrian Rogers
One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate… — Amilcar Cabral
Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human. — Juliet Marillier
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious… — Solomon Asch
But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if… — Chad Harbach
Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation… — Herbert Spencer
How is error possible in mathematics? — Henri Poincare
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the… — Tom Gilb
The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent. — Werner Heisenberg
I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if… — Tony Hoare
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't… — Hayley Mills
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of… — Alan Perlis

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